CHAPTER I _En route_ from Hyderabad to Mesopotamia. Voyage up the Tigris 3 CHAPTER II With the Sixth Division after Ctesiphon. The retreat and action at Um-al-Tabul 10 CHAPTER III We reach Kut. Beginning of the siege. The Christmas assault 22 CHAPTER IV Relief delayed. Floods. Life during the siege 52 CHAPTER V General Aylmer's attempt. More floods. Pressure of the siege. Preparations for relief. Failure. Life in a siege mess 88 CHAPTER VI The last days of Kut. Sickness. Death. Surrender 120 PART II THE TREK. KASTAMUNI CHAPTER VII The Third Captivity. Baghdad. The desert march of the sick column. We reach Ras-el-Ain 163 CHAPTER VIII By rail and trek over the Taurus to Angora. The last trek to Kastamuni 185 CHAPTER IX Life in Kastamuni. The first summer, 1916 208 CHAPTER X Winter. Our "self-made" orchestra 222 CHAPTER XI Extracts and Photos from _Smoke_, the Kastamuni _Punch_ 232 CHAPTER XII Spring. Plots to escape. Betrayal. Escape of others. I am sent to Stamboul for hospital 267 PART III STAMBOUL AND BRUSA CHAPTER XIII Psamatia (Stamboul). Starvation and neglect in hospital and garrison. Plots to escape by the Bosphorus. I organize escape from Psamatia through the heart of Stamboul. Storm and wreck on Sea of Marmara. Return 291 CHAPTER XIV Discovery of the letter. Brusa. Court-martial. Life in a Stamboul prison. Politics and intrigue 323 CHAPTER XV Brusa again. Change on Western Front. Stamboul before the end. Political manoeuvring. The Prince Subaheddine. The Union and Progress Party 350 CHAPTER XVI I leave Stamboul on a mission _en route_ for the Fleet. Meet the Prince's delegate at Smyrna. Free! With the Entente Fleet at Mudros before entering the Dardanelles 367 CHAPTER XVII I leave Mudros with despatches for Rome, Paris, and London, England! 381 EPILOGUE 386 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS