ROUTH, Guy Montgomery.

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Ordnance N. & S. Persia 1918. First edition of this scarce, minutely detailed account of two important and underreported campaigns to protect British interests from German influence in Persia and Afghanistan, written by an intelligent and observant officer. We have traced a single institutional copy only (Imperial War Museum).Commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1900, Colonel Routh (1882-1962) subsequently served in India, transferring to the Indian Ordnance Department in 1908. He served in East Africa, 1914-16, Mesopotamia, 1916-18, and, in the final months of the war, as Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services for "Dunsterforce" and the South Persia Field Force. His distinguished military career in India ended on his retirement in 1936. Fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, he was an active member of the Royal Central Asian Society.These two parts belong to Routh's War Memoirs of Eastern Campaigns, a multi-volume, continuously paginated series also covering his service in East Africa, Mesopotamia, and Waziristan. In the first, concerning Dunsterforce, Routh analyses the inception of the campaign, comments on Dunsterville and his staff, and explains the changing operational role that required his logistical expertise: "Dunsterville, a fine Russian scholar of the Indian Army, arrived in Basra en route to North Persia in Jan. 1918... His choice [of staff] had naturally fallen mainly on Colonials, whose ribbons indicated a high degree of gallantry, but comple

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