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Notes and abbreviations

The writing of SPoW

Bibliographical description

The book itself

The illustrations

Appendices



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Front end-paper

The eternal itch

Illustrations within the text

Feysal
False quiet
The flashing sword
Dignity
Object lesson
Sleeping, waking
The gad-fly
The creator
Ibrahim Pasha
Spine drill
Victory
A camel ambulance
A reluctant shepherd
Suppliants
Male and female
Luxury
The Sirhan
The dogs of Harith
Ambush
Scouting
Khamsin
Mucking in
A forced landing
Camel march
Wind
Off duty
Why not run away?
The last prophet
Appeasing a tumult
At a well
The little less
The Oxford manner
Standards of value
A miscarriage
A jolly evening
Kindergarten
As-hab
Staff conference
Temptation of necessary food
Us all
Body, spirit, soul
Irish troops being shelled
Dhaif Allah
Beyond the end
Good intentions
A literary method
Mudowwara
In his own image
The sport of kings
Introspection
The body survives the soul
The glory of a young man
Conscience our guide
Infantry
High explosive
A garden
Dhat el Haj
The goal
The prophet's tomb
Caesar
A rabbit

Illustrations following the text

Jidda - five street-scenes
Prickly pear
Allenby
Wilson
Boyle
Storrs
Author
Blasted tree
Lloyd
Night bombing
Emir Abdulla
Jaafar
Shakir
Auda abu Tayi
Ali ibn el Hussein
Nawaf Shaalan
Ghalib
Matar
Mukheymer
Saad el Sikeini
Mohammed el Sheheri
Mahmas
El Zaagi
Serj
Alayan
Hameid Abu Jabir
Tafas
Hussein Mohammed
Abd el Rahman
At Akaba
Hogarth
Storrs
Joyce
Young
Bartholomew
G Dawnay
Junor
Newcombe
Buxton
Wingate
McMahon
Winterton
A Dawnay
Clayton
Author
Waterfall
El Sakhara
Mountains
Dysentery
Stokes' gun class
Nightmare
Strata
Thinking
In a tent
Bombing in Wadi Fara
Tafas
Entering Damascus

Back end-paper

The world, the flesh, the devil



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