Raiders of the Sarhad: Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border During the Great War

The Persian-Baluchi border in 1915 was a place where empires went to die. German agents whispered among the tribes, promising gold and vengeance against the British. Into this volcanic landscape stepped Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, a British officer tasked with the impossible: pacifying the raiders of the Sarhad without the troops to do it. What followed was a campaign where bluff mattered as much as bullets, where a single officer with wounded camels and a temperamental motorcar held the line between chaos and catastrophe. This is Dyer's own account of that campaign, mixing tactical analysis with the dark humor of a man who watched his resources dwindle and his enemies multiply. It is also a window into a forgotten corner of the Great War, where the real fighting happened not in the trenches of France but in the scorched passes of a borderland that belonged to no one.