On The Road To Bagdad
by F. S. Brereton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir), 1872-1957
- Title
- On the Road to Bagdad: A Story of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris
- Credits
- Produced by sp1nd, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43081
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43081
- Release Date
- July 2, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.On the Road to Bagdad — A Story of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris
- 2.BY CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON — Author of "With Joffre at Verdun" "Under French's Command" "With Our Russian Allies" &c. &c. — Illustrated by Wal Paget — "THE CHIEF RETURNED THE OFFICER'S FRANK GAZE WITH A GLANCE WHICH TOLD OF COURAGE AND PRIDE"
- 3.Contents
- 4.Illustrations
- 5.ON THE ROAD TO BAGDAD
- 6.CHAPTER I — A Frontier Station
- 7.CHAPTER II — Geoffrey Keith and Another — Sketch Map of Mesopotamia
- 8.CHAPTER III — The Persian Gulf
- 9.CHAPTER IV — The First Encounter — "WHAT WAS LEFT OF THOSE ARAB HORSEMEN SCATTERED AND FLED"
- 10.CHAPTER V — News of the Enemy
- 11.CHAPTER VI — An Exploring-party
- 12.CHAPTER VII — Major Joseph Douglas
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — The Motor-boat in Action — "GEOFF LEVELLED HIS OWN PIECE ON HIM"
- 14.CHAPTER IX — A Cutting-out Expedition
- 15.CHAPTER X — Geoff and Philip manœuvre — "PHILIP HURLED HIMSELF AND HIS CAPTIVE OVER THE RAIL OF THE VESSEL"
- 16.CHAPTER XI — A Soldiers' Battle
- 17.CHAPTER XII — Esbul, the Armenian — "GEOFF TURNED, AND, DRAWING HIS REVOLVER, EMPTIED IT AT THE TWO MEN STILL PURSUING"
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — An Amphibious Expedition
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — Captured by the Enemy
- 20.CHAPTER XV — Von Hildemaller's Intervention
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — Breaking Out
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — The Road to Bagdad
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — News of Douglas Pasha — "THE ARAB SET OFF ALONG A PATH WITHIN SOME TWENTY YARDS OF OUR HEROES"
- 24.CHAPTER XIX — Tracking the German
- 25.CHAPTER XX — Success at Last — STORIES OF WAR
- 26.By CAPTAIN BRERETON
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