In the Hands of Arabs. By Zetton Buchanan. (Hodder and
Stoughton. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Buchanan's narrative of the Arab rising at Shahraban, north-east of Baghdad, in August, 1920, is interesting and dramatic. She had joined her husband, who was the Irrigation Officer at Shahraban, only three months before. When the Arabs rose, Captain Buchanan and his fellow- officers were murdered and the native levies ran away. Mrs. Buchanan, with a wounded sergeant, two other Englishmen and a few Indians were taken captive, and were not rescued till a month later. Mrs. Buchanan describes her imprisonment in detail. Whether the relieving column could have been sent sooner, as she suggests, is by no means clear, for the rising on the Euphrates had to be checked and there were few troops available. The book is well illustrated with photographs.
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