Raiders of the Sarhad / Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War

A brigadier's first-hand account of a localized military campaign along the Persian-Baluchi frontier during the Great War, recounting orders received, logistics across desert tracks, and a sequence of patrols, ambushes, and negotiated surrenders. It describes the use of bluff alongside armed action to subdue restless nomad tribes, arrangements with local levies, captures and paroles, prisoner management, and repeated small-scale engagements. The narrative combines operational detail—maps, photographs, force dispositions, marches, entrenchments—with observations on tribal politics, supply challenges, and the interplay of diplomacy and force that led to a negotiated peace.