New Acquisitions

Purchased a couple of books online this week. The first is an annotated bibliography of Englishmen in colonial India, entitled Glimpses of India. Am hoping to discover some obscure memoirs by British officers who served in Mesopotamia. The second book is Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks: The Great War Diaries of Colonel W. C. Spackman.  Spackman served as a medical officer and was captured after Kut fell. Looking forward to receiving both in the mail shortly. Still havent received my 4-vol set by Moberly...maybe they will all show up this week!

Mesopotamian Bibliography

It is always exciting to come across something new after you have been looking at the same data for quite some time. Today I ran across a title I had not seen before, and never new about the Mesopotamian connection. The book is Christopher Summerhayes: Soldier, Levant Consul & Diplomat.  Summerhayes apparently served in France, then to Meso where he also supported Dunsterforce. So he essentially covered the gamut of the campaign. I dont know much more about him, and will try to obtain the book myself. Anyone know anything more about this individual with regards to his World War I service?

Mesopotamian Campaign bibliography

As I have mentioned before, I am still working on my annotated bibliography of the Mesopotamian Campaign. I have been working on this since at least 2003 (on again off again), but have put a reemphasis on getting it done. With that, I have been reviewing my reviews of some fairly obscure books, which I will post here shortly. So stay tuned....