Introduction, 1 Requiem for the Indian Army: the Indo-British Invasion of Turkish Arabia, 2 Sir Percy Cox, King of the Gulf , 3 `That Mountebank Townshend': the Siege of Kut al-`Amarah and the Death March to Turkey, 4 `A Hopeless and Unworthy Attempt': Lawrence of Kut, 5 The End of Ottoman Mesopotamia, 6 Cox and the Unworkable General, 7 `You and your Amir!': the sad case of Gertrude Bell, 8 A T Wilson, Creator of modern Iraq, 9 `If any man has deserved a knighthood it is you': Wilson and the uprising of 1920, 10 Cox, Kingmaker in Iraq, 11 Dobbs and the Decade of Treaties, 12 Climacteric: The Twilight of The High Commissioners and the `Independence' of Iraq, Appendices: A Sayyid Talib, B The early career and character of Wilson, C The later career of Townshend, D The later career of Wilson, E Cox in Tehran, Envoi, Notes, Bibliography.
Richard Long is a linguist, historian and active speaker and writer on Middle Eastern subjects. He graduated from Cambridge with a First in Arabic and Persian and spent a year as a Fellow of the Institute of Islamic Studies of McGill University, Montreal. He then embarked on a career in diplomatic and cultural relations during which he lived in six Arab countries and Turkey, with three years in Baghdad as the highlight. (Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses caused the cancellation of a posting to Tehran.) Latterly, he spent a decade running the International Office of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and teaching Middle East History there and at Durham University. He has done consultancy work for the BBC and Longman and wrote the text of the booklet for the exhibition commemorating the first 25 years of the independent United Arab Emirates. The author (either as Richard Long or C.W.R. Long) of Tawfiq al-Hakim, Playwright of Egypt (1979), Bygone Heat. Travels of an Idealist in the Middle East (2004) and British Pro-consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929. The Challenge of Nationalism (2005), to which this book is a sequel.
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