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Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)

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Baghdad Railway
*[https://archive.org/details/turkeygreatpower00earlrich ''Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway : a study in Imperialism''] by Edward Mead Earle 1924 Archive.org with [https://archive.org/stream/turkeygreatpower00earlrich#page/n5/mode/2up Map 1918]
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/140/mode/2up Description of a journey from Bozanti to Aleppo by (existing) rail, horse and road, via Alexandretta c 1915?] page 140 ''Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913-1919'' by Djemal Pasha, formerly…Imperial Ottoman Naval Minister, Commander of the Fourth Army in Sinai, Palestine and Syria. 1922 Archive.org. With [https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/n146/mode/1up Map probably of sections (or proposed sections) of the Baghdad Railway Adana to Aleppo] and showing the strategic port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta), facing page 140, and [https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/n147/mode/1up Lower part of the this map, south west from Aleppo to Homs and the coast]
*[https://wwws3-ap-southeast-2.awmamazonaws.gov.aucom/imagesawm-media/collection/pdfRCDIG1069713/RCDIG1069713--1-document/5519202.pdf PDF "Chapter XXII – By Cattle-Truck Through the Taurus"], pages 309-324 [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069872/ ''Gallipoli Mission''] by Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) Bean (1st edition, 1948). Australian War Memorial website. This account relates to travel by Bean, of the Australian Historical Mission, during the months of February and March, 1919.
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n108/mode/1up Page 89] ''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org indicates that after the War, Indian troops were guarding the railway line in the Taurus Mountains, and that there were Indian Field Post Offices in the vicinity.
*[http://www.levantineheritage.com/wolf.htm Extract pages from ''The Diplomatic History of the Baghdad Railway''] by John B. Wolf, ''University of Missouri Studies'', Volume XI, no 2, April 1936. Includes Content and most of the Bibliography pages, and a Map of Turkish Railways in 1914. levantineheritage.com
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