LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

FACING PAGE
Ctesiphon[Frontispiece]
The Brick-kilns, Kut[24]
Remains of my Battery Position on the Maidan[56]
Recent Photo of Author's Last Billet in Kut[134]
General Townshend at Baghdad, a Prisoner, with Khalil
Pasha on his Left[158]
Our Prison, Baghdad (after British Occupation)[166]
Letter From Eve. (Photographed from Smoke)[232]
Kastamuni Kuttites Klearout Kompany. (Smoke)[234]
King Arthur's Knights of the Oblong Table, Etc. (Smoke)[240]
Mermaid Reading (Smoke)[240]
Die Nacht, Etc. (Smoke)[244]
An Escape Story. (Smoke)[244]
"Fall of Kut." (Smoke)[248]
The Song of the Rain. (Smoke)[248]
Entry of General Maude into Baghdad[296]
Photo of Author taken secretly while a Prisoner in Stamboul[310]
Lieut.-Col. S. F. Newcombe, D.S.O., R.E.[318]
Hotel at Brusa, Etc.[326]
Djemal Pasha, one of the Triumvirate whose A.D.C., Ismid
Bey, met me secretly[340]
General Townshend on his Island (Principo) with Visitors[342]
The First Warship in Turkish Waters: H.M.S, Monitor 29[370]
MAPS
Of Kut during Siege[42]
Of General Aylmer's Attempt of March, 1916[88]
Of Trek, including Plans of Escape[392]

PART I

TO THE FALL OF KUT, APRIL 29TH, 1916