FOREWORD The following pages are the result of observations made andimpressions received during a recent journey between one of the greatestcapitals of Europe a... » 

FOREWORD The following pages are the result of observations made andimpressions received during a recent journey between one of the greatestcapitals of Europe and the crumbling remains of what was in the longago thegreatest capital of Asia. The route I followed was that which has been renderedfamous by the migrations of the nations from the East to the West and by themarch of the Armies from the days of Asurbanipal Darius and Alexander to thoseof HarunalRashid Godefroy de Bouillon and Kolmar von der Goltz. The journeyin question I made not as a tourist but as a student..... Many of the earliestbooks particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are nowextremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classicworks in affordable high quality modern editions using the original text andartwork. «