Crescent and Iron Cross, page 1 by E.F. Benson
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in Niepage, called The Horrors of Aleppo. In the first chapter I have based the short historical survey on the contribution of Mr. D.G. Hogarth to The Balkans (Clarendon Press, 1915). The chapter called 'Thy Kingdom is Divided' is in no respect at all an official utterance, and merely represents the individual opinions and surmises of the author. It has, however, the official basis that the Allies have pledged themselves to remove the power of the Turk from Constantinople, and to remove out of the power of the Turk the alien peoples who have too long already been subject to his murderous rule. I have, in fact, but attempted to conjecture in what kind of manner that promise will be fulfilled.
Fresh items of news respecting internal conditions in Turkey are continually coming in, and if one waited for them all, one would have to wait to the end of the war before beginning to write at all on this subject. But since such usefulness as this book may possibly have is involved with the necessity of its appearance before the end of the war, I set a term to the gathering of material, and, with the exception of two or three notes inserted later, ceased to collect it after June 1917. But up to then anything that should have been inserted in surveys and arguments, and is not, constitutes a culpable omission on my part.
E.F. BENSON
Crescent and Iron Cross, Contents
* CHAPTER I
THE THEORY OF THE OLD TURKS
* CHAPTER II
THE THEORY OF THE NEW TURKS
* CHAPTER III
THE END OF THE ARMENIAN QUESTION
* CHAPTER IV
THE QUESTION OF SYRIA AND PALESTINE
* CHAPTER V
DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLAH
* CHAPTER VI
'THY KINGDOM IS DIVIDED'
* CHAPTER VII
THE GRIP OF THE OCTOPUS
Crescent and Iron Cross, Chapter I
THE THEORY OF THE OLD TURKS
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