Soldiers of the Prophet. By Lieut.-Colonel C. C. R. Murphy.
(HOgg. 10s. 6d. net.)—The author was intelligence officer in the Persian Gulf before the War and during the campaign in Mesopotamia, and he also headed the British Mission to Con- stantinople after the Armistice. His intimate knowledge of the Turks lends value to this collection of papers, the most notable of which deal with Mesopotamia and Gallipoli. There are two accounts of the critical action at Shaiba, in April, 1915, when the Turks tried to retake Basra ; one of them is written from the diary of a Turkish officer who took a leading part in the battle. In an article, compiled from Turkish sources, on the Turkish Army at Gallipoli, the author states that the enemy casualties were 2,160 officets and 287,000 other ranks; more
than half the Turkish Army was engaged in and near the Peninsula.
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