The independent Arab / by Major Sir Hubert Young.

PROLOGUE : CHAPTER I. JOURNEYS (MIDDLE EAST, 1913) : First interests in Arabs and Arabic - Haji Abdul Majid - Trip to Macedonia and Constantinople - Beyrout - Damascus - Visit to Yahya Beg al Atrash - Lawrence at Carchemish - Diarbekir - Raft-journey down Tigris to Mosul and Baghdad - Steamer to Basrah and Karachi -- MESOPOTAMIA : CHAPTER II. ORTHODOXY (BASRAH, 1915) : Outbreak of war - Sent to Mesopotamia in 1915 as Assistant Political Officer - British base at Basrah - Political officers - Mahrattas - Posted to Revenue Department - Crown estates - Flood protection - The Faid - Shaiba Bund contract - Fao column - The Arab cultivator -- CHAPTER III. EARTHWORK (SHAMA, 1916) : Organisation of labour on Shaiba Bund - Mud and rain - The old Euphrates bed - Bridging with sand-bags - Summary measures - Attacked in rear - Revetment - Eating the eye - Lawrence at Basrah - Mahrattas again - Captain A. T. Wilson -- CHAPTER IV. REGATTAS (NASIRIYAH, 1916) : Transfer to Nasiriyah - Attitude of Iraqis towards British rule - typical Euphrates town - Mizher Pasha - Punitive expedition up-river - Getting hold of the Sheikh - Second expedition - Hamud as Swet - Fly-boats - Bedouin co-operation - Hamud's V.C. Guns - Nasiriyah Mounted Guard - Captain H. R. P. Dickson - Local councils - General Post -- CHAPTER V. RESOURCES (BAGHDAD, 1917) : Local Produce Department - Colonel E. Dickson - Baghdad - Supply problems - Tour of Middle Euphrates - Haji Atteya abu Gullal - Museyib - Kerbela - Najaf - Kifil - Hillah - General impressions - General Maude's proclamation - Buying barley at Museyib and Hillah - General Maude's weekly meetings - Dates at Basrah -- ARABIA PETREA : CHAPTER VI. HETERODOXY (AKABA, 1918) : Arab operations - Colonel Lawrence - Arab base at Akaba - Colonel Joyce and his fellow-officers - Wady Ittm - Guwera - Emir Feisal - Ja'far Pasha - Camel riding - Lawrence's wardrobe - His personality - Reconnaissance of Dhat al Haj - The Hejaz railway - The Elizabethan Lawrence - Dawnay - Capture of Semna - Attack on Maan -- CHAPTER VII. GUNS (WAHEIDA, 1918) : Plan for attack on Jurf al Derawish - Misadventures on camel-back - Demolitions - Auda abu Tai - Camp at Musheyish - Marzuq writes to General Allenby - Abdullah abu Saleh - Crossing the line - Guns for Towana - Capture of Abu Jerdun - Sherifian and Bedouin delays - Second attack on Abu Jerdun - Makik -- CHAPTER VIII. CAMELS (AZRAQ, 1918) : Q work for the Sherifian army - The Camel Transport Corps - Its independence - Two thousand camels - Preparations for the great raid - The Imperial Camel Corps - Changes of plan - Organising convoys - Sheikh Yusuf and the telegram - Spitting - The start - Pisani's barley - Concentration at Azraq -- CHAPTER IX. DEMOLITIONS (DERAA, 1918) : Disappointing beginnings - Lawrence to the rescue - Nuri as Said - The Bedouin let us down - Tel Arar - Peake's demolition - Junor crashes - Riding to Mezerib - The station captured - Tulips - Tel ash Shehab - Riding past Rimtha - Demolition at Nisib - Deraa ncircled - Clearing an aerodrome - General Allenby's advance - Air activities -- CHAPTER X. CLIMAX (DAMASCUS, 1918) : Military problems - Riding to Shaikh Saad - Turkish retreat - Final demolitions - Anxious moments - Left at the post - Harassing the fugitives - Deraa - Meeting with British cavalry - Back to the Army again - Capture of Damascus - Triumphal entry - Administrative arrangements - Local resources - Currency - Advance to Aleppo - Leave to England - Foreign Office -- CHAPTER XI. COMMITMENTS (FOREIGN OFFICE, 1919) : The Eastern Department - International position - British military policy - Foreign Office and India Office - Negotiations with Mecca - Sykes-Picot Agreement - President Wilson - Syrian Covenanters - Framing a policy - Views of Lawrence and Colonel Wilson - Lord Curzon - The Interdepartmental Conference - The Covenant of the League - Mandates - The French in Syria - Baghdadi officers - Deir az Zor - Rumblings -- CHAPTER XII. DELAYS (CONFERENCES, 1920) : Colonel Wilson's despatch - Delays - Congresses in Damascus - Answering the French Ambassador - Nuri as Said - Tardy conversion - The Baghdad Committee - Lord Curzon and Mr. Montagu - Announcements - Constitutional proposals - British or Arab control - Colonel Wilson's telegram - Announcement of return of Sir Percy Cox - French occupation of Damascus, Rebellion in Mesopotamia -- EPILOGUE : CHAPTER XIII. CONSTRUCTION (MIDDLE EAST, 1921) : Formation of the Middle East Department of the Colonial Office - Mr. Winston Churchill - The Cairo Conference - Decision that the Iraq Mandate should be expressed in treaty form - King Feisal - Discussions at Alexandria - By air to Jerusalem and Baghdad - Accidents - Position of High Commissioner in Iraq, and of British officials - Conclusion -- MAPS : THE MIDDLE EAST - IRAQ (MESOPOTAMIA) - SYRIA AND ARABIA PETRÆEA.