CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE[ix]
PART I
TO THE FALL OF KUT, APRIL 29TH, 1916
CHAPTER I
En route from Hyderabad to Mesopotamia. Voyage up the Tigris[3]
CHAPTER II
With the Sixth Division after Ctesiphon. The retreat and action at
Um-al-Tabul[10]
CHAPTER III
We reach Kut. Beginning of the siege. The Christmas assault[22]
CHAPTER IV
Relief delayed. Floods. Life during the siege[52]
CHAPTER V
General Aylmer's attempt. More floods. Pressure of the siege. Preparations
for relief. Failure. Life in a siege mess[88]
CHAPTER VI
The last days of Kut. Sickness. Death. Surrender[120]
PART II
THE TREK. KASTAMUNI
CHAPTER VII
The Third Captivity. Baghdad. The desert march of the sick column.
We reach Ras-el-Ain[163]
CHAPTER VIII
By rail and trek over the Taurus to Angora. The last trek to
Kastamuni[185]
CHAPTER IX
Life in Kastamuni. The first summer, 1916[208]
CHAPTER X
Winter. Our "self-made" orchestra[222]
CHAPTER XI
Extracts and Photos from Smoke, the Kastamuni Punch[232]
CHAPTER XII
Spring. Plots to escape. Betrayal. Escape of others. I am sent to
Stamboul for hospital[267]
PART III
STAMBOUL AND BRUSA
CHAPTER XIII
Psamatia (Stamboul). Starvation and neglect in hospital and garrison.
Plots to escape by the Bosphorus. I organize escape from Psamatia
through the heart of Stamboul. Storm and wreck on Sea of Marmara.
Return[291]
CHAPTER XIV
Discovery of the letter. Brusa. Court-martial. Life in a Stamboul
prison. Politics and intrigue[323]
CHAPTER XV
Brusa again. Change on Western Front. Stamboul before the end.
Political manœuvring. The Prince Subaheddine. The Union and
Progress Party[350]
CHAPTER XVI
I leave Stamboul on a mission en route for the Fleet. Meet the Prince's
delegate at Smyrna. Free! With the Entente Fleet at Mudros
before entering the Dardanelles[367]
CHAPTER XVII
I leave Mudros with despatches for Rome, Paris, and London, England![381]
EPILOGUE[386]

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