It is the book with the publication of which in 1935 Mahbub arrived on the literary scene of the undivided Bengal. The book was first serialised in the monthly "Mohammadi" published from Kolkata, and it at once caught the attention of the readers for Mahbub's extraordinary verve in storytelling. Recollecting his days of war in Mesopotamia, Mahbub brings to life in bold humorous strokes his encounters with people in the kind of his Scottish boss, a lieutenant general, who presented him with a Robert Burns volume for his honesty, his co-mates and their pranks, cooks and guards of the camp, his sickness, the malaria epidemic in the quarters, and Iraqi date-tree gardens and their women.