Author: Paul Knight
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914, the 6th (Poona) Division sailed from India to Basra to bolster Britain's allies, deny the port to enemy shipping, and secure Britain's Persian oil supplies. Further expansion followed: the capture of Al-Amara was the British Army's greatest victory of 1915. When an advance on Baghdad was repulsed, the Siege of Kut became the British Army's longest siege and greatest surrender. Attempts to relieve Kut led to unsuccessful battles that were bloody and muddy even by Western Front standards. Under new leadership, revitalized and reinforced, the British avenged their defeat when Baghdad was captured in March 1917. Thereafter, the British Empire committed, in campaigns of limited value to the overall war effort, huge levels of manpower and materiel desperately needed elsewhere. What was created was modern Iraq and the first Arab government in Baghdad in over 400 years. This detailed history places the campaign in context of Allied operations in the Middle East and sheds light on several unsung heroes of the war, including General Charles Townshend whose spectacular 1915 victories led to humiliating defeat and captivity in 1916; General Frederick Stanley Maude whose March 1917 entry into Baghdad preceded General Allenby's entry into Jerusalem by eight months; and Miss Gertrude Bell, a "female Lawrence of Arabia" who played a central role in the creation of the new Iraqi state.
The British Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
Author: Paul Knight
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914, the 6th (Poona) Division sailed from India to Basra to bolster Britain's allies, deny the port to enemy shipping, and secure Britain's Persian oil supplies. Further expansion followed: the capture of Al-Amara was the British Army's greatest victory of 1915. When an advance on Baghdad was repulsed, the Siege of Kut became the British Army's longest siege and greatest surrender. Attempts to relieve Kut led to unsuccessful battles that were bloody and muddy even by Western Front standards. Under new leadership, revitalized and reinforced, the British avenged their defeat when Baghdad was captured in March 1917. Thereafter, the British Empire committed, in campaigns of limited value to the overall war effort, huge levels of manpower and materiel desperately needed elsewhere. What was created was modern Iraq and the first Arab government in Baghdad in over 400 years. This detailed history places the campaign in context of Allied operations in the Middle East and sheds light on several unsung heroes of the war, including General Charles Townshend whose spectacular 1915 victories led to humiliating defeat and captivity in 1916; General Frederick Stanley Maude whose March 1917 entry into Baghdad preceded General Allenby's entry into Jerusalem by eight months; and Miss Gertrude Bell, a "female Lawrence of Arabia" who played a central role in the creation of the new Iraqi state.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914, the 6th (Poona) Division sailed from India to Basra to bolster Britain's allies, deny the port to enemy shipping, and secure Britain's Persian oil supplies. Further expansion followed: the capture of Al-Amara was the British Army's greatest victory of 1915. When an advance on Baghdad was repulsed, the Siege of Kut became the British Army's longest siege and greatest surrender. Attempts to relieve Kut led to unsuccessful battles that were bloody and muddy even by Western Front standards. Under new leadership, revitalized and reinforced, the British avenged their defeat when Baghdad was captured in March 1917. Thereafter, the British Empire committed, in campaigns of limited value to the overall war effort, huge levels of manpower and materiel desperately needed elsewhere. What was created was modern Iraq and the first Arab government in Baghdad in over 400 years. This detailed history places the campaign in context of Allied operations in the Middle East and sheds light on several unsung heroes of the war, including General Charles Townshend whose spectacular 1915 victories led to humiliating defeat and captivity in 1916; General Frederick Stanley Maude whose March 1917 entry into Baghdad preceded General Allenby's entry into Jerusalem by eight months; and Miss Gertrude Bell, a "female Lawrence of Arabia" who played a central role in the creation of the new Iraqi state.
The First Iraq War--1914-1918
Author: A. J. Barker
Publisher: Enigma Books
ISBN: 1929631863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Had this book been in print in 2003, things would have been different.
Publisher: Enigma Books
ISBN: 1929631863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Had this book been in print in 2003, things would have been different.
The Neglected War: Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
Author: A. J. Barker
Publisher: London : Faber
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher: London : Faber
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918
Author: Frederick James Moberly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A Brief Outline of the Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
Author: Roger Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The War in the Cradle of the World, Mesopotamia
Author: Eleanor Franklin Egan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Betrayal of an Army
Author: Tank Nash
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781473843769
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"[This] book is a forensic yet thoroughly readable examination one hundred years on of the circumstances and personalities that combined to create one of the most disastrous chapters in British military history."--Book jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781473843769
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"[This] book is a forensic yet thoroughly readable examination one hundred years on of the circumstances and personalities that combined to create one of the most disastrous chapters in British military history."--Book jacket.
The Bastard War
Author: A. J. Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Mesopotamia, 1914-15
Author: Henry Thomas Birch-Reynardson
Publisher: London : A. Melrose
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: London : A. Melrose
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Desert Hell
Author: Charles Townshend
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Modern Iraq was created deliberately by the British over the seven years following their first invasion in 1914. Charles Townshend provides an informative and compelling explanation of that conquest and examines how an initially cautious strategic invasion by British forces led to imperial expansion on a vast scale.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Modern Iraq was created deliberately by the British over the seven years following their first invasion in 1914. Charles Townshend provides an informative and compelling explanation of that conquest and examines how an initially cautious strategic invasion by British forces led to imperial expansion on a vast scale.