By the Light of a Candle

Translation from Ottoman Turkish of the diaries of Ragip Nurettin Ege, a reserve officer in the Ottoman army during the First World War.

Contenu

• ABOUT THE EDITORS (page 5)
• DEDICATION (page 7)
• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 9)
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (page 11)
• I.WHO KNOWS WHAT DAYBREAK WILL BRING (page 15)
• SERVICE IN THE EAST-HISTORICAL BACKDROP (page 17)
• THE FAMILY AND THE DIARIES (page 23)
• II.CALLED TO DUTY (page 31)
• 1915 DIARY (page 33)
• III.IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPIRE (page 279)
• IN THE OFFICERS' MESS-LIFE OF A RESERVE OFFICER (page 283)
• IV.A LAND WORTH DYING FOR (page 295)
• POST-WAR STRUGGLES (page 297)
• V.CALLED TO THE COLOURS (page 353)
• EPILOGUE (page 355)
• APPENDIX (page 358)
• GLOSSARY (page 360)