2-711-000 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Map to Illustrate the Mesopotamian Expedition', 1919. Showing the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, including the Turkish or Ottoman Empire, and parts of Russia, Persia and Egypt. The Mesopotamian campaign was fought between the Allies represented by the British Empire, (Britain, Australia and British India), and the Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. V, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]