THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN. (Official History of the War.) Vol. IV.
Illustrated. By General F. J. Moberly. (H.M. Stationery Office. 15s.)—With this volume General Moberly brings to an end his survey of the operations in Mesopotamia and adjacent countries—a task which he has accomplished with clarity and vigour. Of this last section (which contains of course a notice of the lamented death of General Maude together with a generous appreciation of his military capacity) the two outstanding features are the exploits of Dunsterforce in North-west Persia and the Caspian, and the occupation of Mosul which crowned our work in Mesopotamia. Reading between the sober unimpassioned lines of the official narrative, we can dimly trace the sensa- tional adventures of General Dunsterville, which he has already given to the world in his own book. Particularly instructive too is a letter (given in full) of Ghazi Mustapha -Kemars• to Enver Pasha, who had by this time lost most of his popularity and influence, in which Kemal analyses most acutely tamp unstable condition of the Ottoman Empire, and voices his profound distrust of the Germans, to whom " the more we give the more they will grasp."
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