CONTENTS
1. LAND OF ETERNAL CONFLICT / II 2, DIWANIYAH / 24 3. NORTHWARD TO THE MOUNTAINS / 38 4. THE ROAD / 49 5. I CAMP ON SPILIK / 60 6. THE BRIGAND, HAMADA CHIN / 70 7. GALI ALI BEG / 79 8. FORTS ON THE FRONTIER / 91 9. MEN OF THE MIDDLE EAST / 104 I0. THE DEPTHS OF THE CANYON / 117 11. ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK / 130 12. A CHRISTMAS EVE IN KURDISTAN / 145 13. THE SNOWS MELT / 161 14. THE CAVE OF KOSPYSPEE / 173 15. THE TREASURE-VAULT OF THE ANCIENT KINGS / 182 16. THE CONQUEST OF GALI AL1 BEG / 192 17. THE BLOOD-FEUD OF ROWANDUZ / 209 18. THE FATE OF A KURDISH CHIEFTAIN / 222 19. THE ASSYRIANS / 240 20. THE GOAL ATTAINED / 252 ILLUSTRATIONS I. IN THE ROWANDUZ GORGE facing / 32 Photograph Captain H. M. Burton
2. DIWANIYAH / 33 3. THE BLIND BEGGAR ON THE KIRKUK ROAD / 48 4. AN ALTUN KEUPRI FISH / 48 5. ARBIL / 49 Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
6. A KURDISH PLOUGHMAN 64 7. THE NEW ROAD UP SPILIK PASS 65 Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
8. SPILIK PASS POLICEMAN, GUERGES AND HASSAN / 80 9. MULE CARAVAN TRANSPORTING `JUSS' TO KAN1 RASH / 80 10. THE CARAVAN TRACK IN THE ROWANDUZ GORGE / 81 Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
11. ROWANDUZ FROM THE AIR / 96 Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
12. KURDISH VILLAGERS / 97 13. THE ALANA SU JOINS THE ROWANDUZ RIVER / 112 Photograph: 5. D. Kidd
14. BERSERINI GORGE / 113 Photograph: Captain H. M. Burton 15. COOLIES TAKING THEIR MIDDAY REST, ASLEEP ON THE ROCK / 128 16. SAYED HEUSNI EFFEND1 THIRD FROM THE RIGHT) AND SHABANAS OF SHAIKH SAYED TAHA / 129 Photograph: Captain H. M. Burton
17. SHAIKH MAHMUD / 144 18, THE OLD BERSERINI BRIDGE / 145
ILLUSTRATIONS 19. TREWHELLA WINCH OPERATORS CONTROLLING BRIDGE ERECTION facing / 160
20. HALF-TUNNELLED ROADWAY 1N THE ROWANDUZ GORGE / 161 Photograph: Pilot-Officer W. I. Scott, R.A.F.
21. A DARING AIR PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BALKIAN GORGE / 176 Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
22. THE BALKIAN BRIDGE / 177 Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved 23. THE MAIN BRIDGE OVER THE ROWANDUZ RIVER / 192 24. ISMAIL BEG ON THE KURDISH BRIDGE AT ROWANDUZ / 193 Photograph: Captain H. M. Burton
25. SHAIKH AHMAD OF BARZAN WITH HIS CHIEFTAINS / 208 Photograph: Captain C. E. Littledale
26. ASSYRIAN CHILDREN / 208 27. THE ROAD NEAR RAYAT / 209 Photograph: F. D. Kidd
28. THE TOWN OF ROWANDUZ / 209 Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
MAPS IRAQ AND THE ROAD THROUGH KURDISTAN at the end of the book THE ROWANDUZ ROAD at the end of the book |