From the translator\'s preface:\'If Pierre Loti considered that his admirable letters needed an apology for being written in feverish haste, straight from a heart full of indignation and sorrow, how much more does the English rendering necessitate weighty justification, since much of the fire and enthusiasm of the original will perforce be missed in a foreign language. My justification for this, a labour of love, is that not every day can one find a writer, enjoying the world-wide fame of Pierre Loti, ready to uphold justice and fair-play coute que coue. This volume is published under the auspices of the Ottoman Committee and for the purpose of a propaganda which is avowedly of a distinctly Turkophile nature. Following the activities of the Balkan Committee, it was logical that an Ottoman Committee should be formed in England. There are men and women who have travelled in the Turkish Empire and learned to love Turks and Arabs ; there are those whose point of view is that of fair-play alone. They remember that once, not so very long ago, British and Turkish troops fought side by side, and the soldiers of both armies learned to respect each other. The Ottoman Committee takes advantage of the publication of Turquie Agonisante as of a powerful magnet with which to attract towards its fold all the friends of Turkey, all those who believe in the eternal principles of justice, and even those whose view is solely that the Ottomans should retain their independence in order to prevent complications and difficulties which would be detrimental to the British Empire. \'From the author\'s preface:\'I hope that those who have the kindness to read these ill-arranged letters will be indulgent to them. They were feverishly written in indignation and sorrow and published in haste, in order to unmask, if possible, so much disgraceful hypocrisy, to try to force a little truth into the public ear and to crave a little justice. But they should be continued, for every day brings me new, positive details to the support of my cause. In spite of censorship and fine words, the true facts will be universally known in the end. Arson, massacres, pillage, rape, monstrous and unutterable mutilations of prisoners, nothing is lacking to the account of the most Christian armies. I grant, if you will, that all this is inevitable when primitive nations are let loose in war ; and I should not have mentioned them had not the liberators really harped too much on this chord in order to stir up the ignorant and the credulous against the poor Turks who have done far less than they.\'A scarce volume in good condition. Some light bumps to boards. Pages tanned.