War by Revolution. Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I

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onthoseaimedatIndia.MicrocopyT-I36(filmedby St.Antony'sCol-
lege,Oxford)hasmaterialonAbyssinia; T-I20(recordsreceived bythe
U.S.DepartmentofState)onLibya(theSanussis),Egypt, Syria,and
Arabia;andT-I40(filmedbytheUniversityofCalifornia)ontheNfdO.
TheoriginalsofthesedocumentsaredepositedinthePolitiscbes
Arcbivdes AuswiirtigenAmtsinBonn(PA).Mostimportantfor thisbook
arethecollectionsthatpossessthefollowingreferences(Aktenzeicben):
Agypten;TiirkeiI6S(Arabien); We1tkriegNr.IIg(Unternebmungenund
Aufwiege1ungengegen unsere Feinde inAgypten,SyrienundArabien);
WeltkriegNr. IIgGebeim(Agypten, SyrienundArabien);andNachless
CurtPrufer.Thesedocumentsarecitedbyreferencenameandvolume
(e.g.,AgyptenI/Bd.21).
InBritaintheprincipalarchive isthePublicRecordOffice inLondon
(PRO),whichholdstheenormouscollectionsofForeignOfficepolitical
papers(FO371)andWar Officedocuments(WO). Avastsecondarylit-
eratureexistsonBritishpolicyintheMiddle Eastbeforeandduring
WorldWar I,andit isusedsignificantlyinthisbook;notwithstanding,
muchinthesectionsonBritainrestsonFO 371 papersfor Abyssinia,
Egypt, Persia,Switzerland,Turkey,andtheUnitedStates.Therecords
usedinthisstudyarecitedaccordingtotheircollection,piecenumber,
andfile (e.g., FO 371/452/24070).
Also,thePRO hasrecordsoftheArabBureauinCairo(FO 882),an
agencythatreceivedintelligenceinformationfromBritishofficesand
operativesthroughoutnorthernandeasternAfrica,Arabia,andSyria.
ThisgroupofdocumentsincludestheArabBulletin,thebureau'sintel-
ligencesummaries.Available as well aretheconsularpapers(FO395).
Several WOcollectionsprovidevaluablemilitaryandintelligencemate-
rialontheArabrevolt,securitymeasuresin Egypt,andtheGallipoli,
Mesopotamian,andPalestinecampaigns:WO 33(ReportsandMiscel-
laneousPapers),WO I06(DirectorateofMilitaryOperationsandIntel-
ligence, 1837-1960),andWO 157(IntelligenceSummaries,1914-1921).
Offurtheruse forstudyingBritishpolicytowardAfghanistan,India,
Mesopotamia,Persia,andthePersianGulf, arepapersoftheIndiaOffice
(10)andGovernmentofIndia,depositedattheIndiaOfficeLibraryand
RecordsinLondon(IOLR).TheIOLR'sextensive 10 PoliticalandSecret
Departmentfiles (L/PandS)containmaterialonGermanpropaganda
andotherpoliticalactivitiesinIndiaandneighboringlands.

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