Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921

Synopsis

Lively And Accessible Account Of The British Campaign In The Middle East During World War I And Of The Arab Revolt Against Their Occupation. Drawing On British And Arab Archives And Memoirs, Rutledge Brings To Life The Human Side Of These Violent Events Through Vivid Descriptions And Anecdotes. Illustrated With Maps, Photographs And Bibliography. Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. One Invasion, Jihad And Occupation -- 1. Indications Of Oil -- 2. Lieutenant Wilson's First Mission -- 3.'protect The Oil Refineries' -- 4. Arab Mobilisation On The Euphrates -- 5. The Jihad Defeated -- 6. Pacifying Arabistan -- 7. Imperial Objectives In The East -- 8. The Menace Of Jihad And How To Deal With It -- 9. The Lieutenant From Mosul -- 10. The Peculiar Origins Of An Infamous Agreement -- 11. Two British Defeats But A New Ally -- 12. Colonel Leachman And Captain Lawrence -- 13. Mosul And Oil -- 14.'complete Liberation' -- 15. Najaf 1918: First Uprising On The Euphrates -- 16. Britain's New Colony -- 17. The Oil Agreements -- 18. The Independence Movement In Baghdad -- 19. General Haldane's Difficult Posting -- 20. Trouble On The Frontiers -- Pt. Two Revolution And Suppression -- 21. The Drift To Violence -- 22. The Revolution Begins -- 23. Discord And Disputation -- 24. General Haldane's Indian Army -- 25.'the Situation Has Come To A Head' Contents Note Continued: 26. The Destruction Of The Manchester Column -- 27.'further Unfavourable Developments' -- 28. The Structures Of Insurgent Power -- 29. Trouble On The Home Front -- 30. The Siege Of Samawa -- 31. Defeat -- 32.a Death On The Baghdad Road -- 33. The Punishment -- 34.a 'friendly Native State'. Ian Rutledge. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 447-456) And Index.