Note 15 — Chapter XI · TURKEY, CRUSHED TO EARTH, RISES AGAIN

The best single work on military operations in Turkey during the Great War is Edmund Dane’s British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914–1918 (2 volumes, London, 1919). Regarding the Caucasus campaigns of 1914–1915 cf. M. P. Price, War and Revolution in Asiatic Russia (London, 1918), Chapter I; R. Machray, “The Campaign in the Caucasus,” in the Fortnightly Review, Volume 97 (1915), pp. 458–471. Excellent accounts of the first Turkish offensive against the Suez Canal are to be found in G. Douin, Un épisode de la guerre mondiale: l’attaque du canal de Suez, 3 Fevrier, 1915 (Paris, 1922); C. Stiénon, “Sur le chemin de fer de Bagdad,” in Revue des deux mondes, 6 series, Volume 5 (1916), pp. 148–174; T. Wiegand, Sinai (Berlin, 1920); N. Moutran, La Syrie de demain: France et Syrie (Paris, 1916); R. Hennig, Der Kampf um den Suezkanal (Stuttgart, 1915); E. Serman, Mit den Türken an der Front (Berlin, 1915); J. Walther, Zum Kampf in der Wüste am Sinai und Nil (Leipzig, 1916); P. Schweder, Im türkischen Hauptquartier (Leipzig, 1916); Eine Geschichte der Türkei im Weltkriege (Munich, 1919). For the Mesopotamian expedition of 1914–1915 consult Despatches Regarding Operations in the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia (London, the War Office, 1915); G. M. Chesney, “The Mesopotamian Breakdown,” in the Fortnightly Review, Volume 102 (1917), pp. 247–256; H. B. Reynardson, Mesopotamia, 1914–1915 (London, 1919); C. H. Barber, Besieged in Kut and After (Edinburgh, 1917). Of the great quantity of material available on the Dardanelles campaign, cf., in particular, the following: Gallipoli: der Kampf um den Orient, von einem Offizier aus dem Stab des Marschalls Liman von Sanders (Berlin, 1916); General Sir Ian Hamilton, Gallipoli Diary (London, 1920); H. W. Nevinson, The Dardanelles Campaign (London, 1918); S. A. Moseley, The Truth About the Dardanelles (London, 1916); John Masefield, Gallipoli (London, 1916).