Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad

Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad

CHAP. IA TELL NEAR BABYLON IITHE GAPING JAWS IIITHE BARBER'S APPRENTICE IVTHE SHAVING OF BURCKHARDT VSECRET SERVICE VITHE DERVISH HEZAR VIIA MAD RACE VIIIACROSS THE EUPHRATES IXFRIENDS OR FOES? XTHE TRYST XITHE TRAP XIIA REARGUARD ACTION XIIIIN THE BRITISH LINES XIVTHE ENEMY'S GUNS XVA RAID XVICLOSING IN XVIIRAISING THE SIEGE XVIIITHE TIMELY BOMB Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," has been brought by Time's revolution once more into the foreground of the history of the world. The plains where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob tended their flocks and herds; where the hosts of Sennacherib, Shalmaneser and Alexander contended for "world-power" in their day; where the Arabs, heirs of ancient civilisations, reared a civilisation of their own until it fell under the blight of Turkish dominion: have become once more the battle-ground of opposing armies, the representatives of conflicting spirits and ideals. This fertile land, whose history dates back many thousands of years, has long lain desolate. Swamps and marshes and the floods of the Tigris and the Euphrates cover immense tracts that were once the granary of the middle East. The old canals and irrigation works constructed by Babylonians and Assyrians are now obliterated by sand. Where once large populations throve and cultivated literature and the arts, now roam only a few tribes of Arabs, degenerate descendants of the race that at one time led the world in the things of the mind. Mesopotamia is the "abomination of desolation." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 38714
Author: Strang, Herbert
Release Date: Jan 30, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Elcock, H. K. (Howard K.) , Evison, G. Henry, 1871-1928