With the Persian expedition / by Major M. H. Donohoe.

Includes index.

CHAPTER I. THE START OF THE HUSH-HUSH BRIGADE : A mystery expedition - Tower of London conference - From Flanders mud to Eastern dust - An Imperial forlorn hope - Some fine fighting types - The amphibious purser - In the submarine zone - Our Japanese escort -- CHAPTER II. EGYPT TO THE PERSIAN GULF : Afloat in an insect-house - Captain Kettle in command - Overcrowding and small-pox - The s.s. Tower of Babel - A shark scare - Koweit -- CHAPTER III. THE CITY OF SINBAD : Arrival at Basra - A city of filth - Transformation by the British - Introducing sport to the natives - The Arabs and the cinema -- CHAPTER IV. AT A PERSIAN WEDDING : Visit to the Sheikh of Mohammerah - A Persian banquet -- CHAPTER V. UP THE TIGRIS TO KUT : Work of the river flotilla - Thames steamboats on the Tigris - The waterway through the desert - The renaissance of Amarah - The river's jazz-step course - The old Kut and the new - In Townshend's old headquarters - Turks' monument to short-lived triumph -- CHAPTER VI. BAGDAD : Arabian nights and motor-cars - The old and the new in Bagdad - "Noah's dinghy " - Bible history illustrated - At a famous tomb-mosque -- CHAPTER VII. EARLY HISTORY OF DUNSTERVILLE'S FORCE : Jealousy and muddle - The dash for the Caspian - Holding on hundreds of miles from anywhere - A 700-mile raid that failed - The cockpit of the Middle East - Some recent politics in Persia - How our way to the Caspian was barred -- CHAPTER VIII. OFF TO PERSIA : Au revoir to Bagdad - The forts on the frontier- Customs house for the dead - A land of desolation and death - A city of the past - An underground mess - Methods of rifle thieves -- CHAPTER IX. THROUGH MUD TO KIRIND : A city of starving cave-dwellers - An American woman's mission to the wild - A sect of salamanders - Profiteering among the Persians - A callous nation - Wireless orders to sit tight - Awaiting attack - The "mountain tiger" -- CHAPTER X. KIRIND TO KERMANSHAH : Pillage and famine - A land of mud - The Chikar Zabar Pass - Wandering Dervishes - Poor hotel accommodation - A "Hunger Battalion " - A city of the past -- CHAPTER XI. A CITY OF PAMINK : In ancient Hamadan - With Dunsterville at last - His precarious position - "Patriots" as profiteers - Victims of famine - Driven to cannibalism - Women kill their children for food - Trial and execution - Famine relief schemes - Deathblow to the Democrats - "Stalky -- CHAPTER XII. DUNSTERVILLE STRIKES AFRESH : Official hindrances - A fresh blow for the Caucasus - The long road to Tabriz - A strategic centre - A Turkish invasion - Rising of Christian tribes - A local Joan of Arc - The British project -- CHAPTER XIII. THE RACE FOR TABRIZ : A scratch pack for a great adventure - Wagstaff of Persia - Among the Afshars - Guests of the chief - Capture of Zinjan - Peace and profiteering -- CHAPTER XIV. CAPTURE OF MIANEH : Armoured car causes consternation - Reconnoitring the road - Flying column sets out - An easy capture at the gates of Tabriz - Tribesmen raid the armoured car - And have a thin time - Turks get the wind up - CHAPTER XV. LIFE IN MIANEH : Training local levies - A city of parasites and rogues - A knave turns philanthropist - Turks getting active - Osborne's comic opera force - Jelus appeal for help - An aeroplane to the rescue - The democrats impressed - Women worried by aviator's "shorts " - Skirmishes on the Tabriz road - Reinforcements at last -- CHAPTER XVI. THE FIGHT AT TIKMADASH : Treachery of our irregulars - Turkish machine gun in the village - Headquarters under fire - Native levies break and bolt - British force withdrawn - Turks proclaim a Holy War - Cochrane's demonstration - In search of the missing force - Natives mutiny - A quick cure for "cholera " - A Turkish patrol captured - Meeting with Cochrane - A forced retreat - Our natives desert - A difficult night march - Arrival at Turkmanchai - Turks encircling us - A fresh retirement -- CHAPTER XVII. EVACUATION OF MIANEH : We have a chilly reception - Our popularity wanes - Preparation for further retirement - Back to the Kuflan Kuh Pass - Our defensive position - Turks make a frontal attack - Our line overrun - Gallantry of Hants and Worcesters - Pursuit by Turks - Armoured cars save the situation - Prisoners escape from Turks - Persians as fighters -- CHAPTER XVIII. CRUSHING A PLOT : Anti-British activities - Headquarters at Hamadan - Plans to seize ringleaders - Midnight arrests - How the Governor was entrapped -- CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST EXPEDITION TO BAKU : Kuchik Khan bars the road - Turk and Russian movements - Kuchik Khan's force broken up - Bicherakoff reaches Baku - British armoured car crews in Russian uniforms - Fighting around Baku - Baku abandoned - Captain Crossing charges six-inch guns -- CHAPTER XX. THE NEW DASH TO BAKU : Treachery in the town - Jungalis attack Resht - Armoured cars in street-fighting - Baku tires of Bolshevism - British summoned to the rescue - Dunsterville sets out - Position at Baku on arrival - British officers' advice ignored - Turkish attacks - Pressing through the defences - Baku again evacuated -- CHAPTER XXI. THE TURKS AND THE CHRISTIAN TRIBES : Guerrilla warfare - Who the Nestorian and other Christian tribes are - Turkish massacres - Russian withdrawal and its effect - British intervention -- CHAPTER XXII. IN KURDISTAN : The last phase - Dunsterforce ceases to exist - The end of Turkish opposition - Off to Bijar - The Kurdish tribes - Raids on Bijar - Moved on by a policeman - Governor and poet -- CHAPTER XXIII. THE END OF HOSTILITIES : Types of Empire defenders - Local feeling - Dealing with Kurdish raiders - An embarrassing offer of marriage - Prestige by aeroplane - Anniversary of Hossain the Martyr - News of the Armistice - Local waverers come down on our side of the fence - Releasing civil prisoners - Farewell of Bajar - Down country to the sea and home -- APPENDIX : THE WORK OF THE DUNSTERFORCE ARMOURED CAR BRIGADE.