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Title: War in the Garden of Eden

Author: Kermit Roosevelt

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WAR IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

by

KERMIT ROOSEVELT

Captain Motor Machine-Gun Corps, British Expeditionary Forces
Captain Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author

New York

1919

[Illustration: Kermit Roosevelt. From the drawing by John S.
Sargent, July 8, 1917]

To

The Memory of My Father

Contents

I. OFF FOR MESOPOTAMIA
II. THE TIGRIS FRONT
III. PATROLLING THE RUINS OF BABYLON
IV. SKIRMISHES AND RECONNAISSANCES ALONG THE KURDISH FRONT
V. THE ADVANCE ON THE EUPHRATES
VI. BAGHDAD SKETCHES
VII. THE ATTACK ON THE PERSIAN FRONT
VIII. BACK THROUGH PALESTINE
IX. WITH THE FIRST DIVISION IN FRANCE AND GERMANY

Illustrations

Kermit Roosevelt
Map of Mesopotamia showing region of the fighting
Ashar Creek at Busra
Golden Dome of Samarra
Rafting down from Tekrit
Captured Turkish camel corps
Towing an armored car across a river
Reconnaissance
The Lion of Babylon
A dragon on the palace wall
Hauling out a badly bogged fighting car
A Mesopotamian garage
A water-wheel on the Euphrates
A "Red Crescent" ambulance
A jeweller's booth in the bazaar
Indian cavalry bringing in prisoners after the charge
The Kurd and his wife
Sheik Muttar and the two Kurds
Kirkuk
A street in Jerusalem
Japanese destroyers passing through the gut at Taranto

I

OFF FOR MESOPOTAMIA

It was at Taranto that we emba