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The Siege of Kut-al-Amara

Author : Nikolas Gardner
Publisher : Twentieth-Century Battles
ISBN 13 : 9780253013842
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book The Siege of Kut-al-Amara written by Nikolas Gardner and published by Twentieth-Century Battles. This book was released on 2014 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kut-al-Amara was the site of one of the longest sieges ever endured by British forces. On December 3, 1915, the 6th Indian Division under Charles Townshend sought refuge from pursuing Turkish forces inside the walled town. With no heavy artillery to destroy fortifications, the Turks circled the town, subjecting it to intermittent shelling, small arms fire, and infantry attacks. British relief units made repeated attempts to break through the Turkish lines. Meanwhile, within Kut-al-Amara a different sort of war was going on. Townshend's division was made up of Muslim sepoys, who had misgivings about fighting the Turks. Not only were the Turks fellow Muslims but they served the Ottoman Sultan, recognized by many as the Caliph, the spiritual and temporal head of Islam. The Turks played upon this potentially divided loyalty with a propaganda campaign intended to encourage desertion. Then, when a shortage of food forced the garrison to supplement its rations with horsemeat, Muslim and Hindu soldiers were faced with violating dietary restrictions in order to survive. For British officers, prolonging the defense of Kut was complicated by the need to combat disaffection and starvation among the Indian rank and file. A significant event in the British campaign in Mesopotamia, the Siege of Kut-al-Amara offers important insights into Britain's imperial army and its role in the Middle East during World War I.

Desert Hell

Author : Charles Townshend
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Hell written by Charles Townshend and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

When God Made Hell

Author : Charles Townshend
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571269494
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book When God Made Hell written by Charles Townshend and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the most dramatic interventions in recent history. A cautious strategic invasion by British forces led - within seven years - to imperial expansion on a dizzying scale, with fateful consequences for the Middle East and the world. In When God Made Hell, Charles Townshend charts Britain's path from one of its worst military disasters to extraordinary success with largely unintended consequences, through overconfidence, incompetence and dangerously vague policy. With monumental research and exceptionally vivid accounts of on-the-ground warfare, this a truly gripping account of the Mesopotamia campaign, and its place in the wider political and international context. For anyone seeking to understand the roots of British involvement in Iraq, it is essential reading.

Chitrál Charlie

Author : N. S. Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848842762
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Chitrál Charlie written by N. S. Nash and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Townshend achieved international fame, as a captain, when he commanded the besieged garrison at Chitral (now Pakistan) in 1895. As a result, he became known as 'Chitral Charlie'. Decorated by Queen Victoria and lionized by the British public, his passage up through the Army was assured and, in 1916, he was given command on 6th Indian Division and sent to Mesopotamia. Here he won a series of stunning victories as his ill-supported division swept all before it in a devastating advance up the River Tigris. He triumphed brilliantly at Kurna, Amara and Kut but then, against all the tenets of military common sense, he advanced up the River Tigris to take Baghdad. By now overreached, he was confronted by a determined Turkish foe. His Division was depleted and exhausted. Townshend withdrew to Kut, where he was besieged and forced into a humiliating surrender. The mistreatment of the British POWs by the Turks only added to Townshend's shame. This fascinating and objective biography examines Townshend's controversial conduct during and after the siege and assesses whether his dramatic fall from grace and popularity was fair.

The British Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918

Author : Paul Knight
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470496
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The British Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918 written by Paul Knight and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gallipoli & the Middle East 1914–1918

Author : Edward J Erickson
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908273097
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Gallipoli & the Middle East 1914–1918 written by Edward J Erickson and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the aid of over 300 photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, Gallipoli and the Middle East provides a detailed guide to the background and conduct of World War I in all the theatres in which Ottoman forces were engaged.

My Campaign in Mesopotamia

Author : Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend
Publisher : London, Butterworth [1920]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis My Campaign in Mesopotamia by : Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend

Download or read book My Campaign in Mesopotamia written by Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend and published by London, Butterworth [1920]. This book was released on 1920 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kut 1916

Author : Patrick Crowley
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750966061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Kut 1916 written by Patrick Crowley and published by History Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simple operation to secure the oilfields in the Shatt-al-Arab delta and Basra area. Initially it was a great success, but as the army pressed towards Baghdad its poor logistic support, training, equipment and command left it isolated and besieged by the Turks. By 1916 the army had not been relieved, and on 29 April 1916, the British Army suffered one of the worst defeats in its military history. Major-General Sir Charles Townshend surrendered his allied.

Kut 1916

Author : Patrick Crowley
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780752454474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Kut 1916 written by Patrick Crowley and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is plenty of horseflesh, which the Indians have been authorized by their religious leaders to eat, and I have to recall with sorrow, that by not having taken the advantage of this wise dispensation they have weakened my power of resistance by one month." --Major Gen TownshendThe siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment, and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simple operation to secure the oilfields in the Shatt-al-Arab delta and Basra area. Initially it was a great success, but as the army pressed towards Baghdad its poor logistic support, training, equipment, and command left it isolated and besieged by the Turks. By 1916 the army had not been relieved, and on April 29, 1916, the British Army suffered one of the worst defeats in its military history. Major-General Sir Charles Townshend surrendered his allied force to the Turks in the Mesopotamian (now Iraq) town of Kut-al-Amara. More than 13,000 troops, British and Indian, went into captivity; many would not survive their incarceration. In Kut 1916, Colonel Crowley recounts this dramatic tale and its terrible aftermath.

On The Road To Kut, A Soldier’s Story Of The Mesopotamian Campaign [Illustrated Edition]

Author : Anon (Black Tab)
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782891757
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book On The Road To Kut, A Soldier’s Story Of The Mesopotamian Campaign [Illustrated Edition] written by Anon (Black Tab) and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 56 original illustrations and a map of the area. Our anonymous author was part of the 6th Poona Division, Indian Army, the first of the British Empire’s forces to be deployed to Mesopotamia during the First World War. Fighting and marching through sweltering temperatures forced much inactivity on the British and Indian troops as much as their Turkish and Arab opponents. The author in his irreverent style remarked: “From 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. it was hot. From 9 a.m. to 12 damned hot. From 12 to 5.30 much too damned hot.” The campaigning seasons in this part of the world were hot, difficult and fraught with ambush and disease. Black Tab’s struggles and travails as he marches with his comrades to the relief of Kut are punctuated with witty asides, and amusing vignettes, maintaining spirits in the face of adversity. An interesting memoir from an often forgotten campaign.

India, Empire, and First World War Culture

Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108631932
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book India, Empire, and First World War Culture written by Santanu Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914–1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds. Around 1.5 million Indians were recruited, of whom over a million served abroad. Das draws on a variety of fresh, unusual sources - objects, images, rumours, streetpamphlets, letters, diaries, sound-recordings, folksongs, testimonies, poetry, essays, and fiction - to produce the first cultural and literary history, moving from recruitment tactics in villages through sepoy traces and feelings in battlefields, hospitals, and POW camps to post-war reflections on Europe and empire. Combining archival excavation in different countries across several continents with investigative readings of Gandhi, Kipling, Iqbal, Naidu, Nazrul, Tagore, and Anand, this imaginative study opens up the worlds of sepoys and labourers, men and women, nationalists, artists, and intellectuals, trying to make sense of home and the world in times of war.

The Fall of the Ottomans

Author : Eugene Rogan
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465056695
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Ottomans written by Eugene Rogan and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkably readable, judicious and well-researched account" (Financial Times) of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.

The Siege

Author : Russell Braddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Siege written by Russell Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First World War – A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
ISBN 13 : 1913026132
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The First World War – A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter written by Alan Woods and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and shattered the peace of the whole world. This was the beginning of the Great Slaughter. Could it have been avoided? Alan Woods uses the method of Marxism to answer this question. He explains that, actually, whilst individuals play an important role in history, to explain events such as wars, one must look at deeper causes. As well as dealing with the origin of the war, Woods traces the conflict through its development, looking at the role of all the major actors, and their aims. He shows how in the midst of the despair of the trenches and the home front, a new consciousness was formed. He also makes the case that it was the German Revolution that brought the war to an end, and how a revolutionary wave swept across Europe. The book also looks at the Treaty of Versailles and how the victorious powers imposed the deal, not just on Germany, but the rest of Europe and the Middle East. Given the amount of nationalistic mystification from all sides about the First World War, a history of the subject from the standpoint of the world working class is essential and it is provided by this book.

The First Iraq War--1914-1918

Author : A. J. Barker
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1929631863
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The First Iraq War--1914-1918 written by A. J. Barker and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had this book been in print in 2003, things would have been different.

Ends and Means

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838635308
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Ends and Means written by Paul K. Davis and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditionally accepted rationale behind this move has been the protection of oil supplies used by the Royal Navy - but the campaign veered seriously away from its original intent.

World War I

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593847539
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book World War I written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the misery of life in the trenches -- and how the Great War devastated Europe. Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon nation sent their men to join the carnage, combine to present a dramatic "eyewitness" view of this most terrible war. See the bullet-riddled car of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, everyday life in the dugout, sappers mining tunnels beneath the enemy, and Mata Hari learning the art of spying. Learn how people avoided gas attacks, when periscopes were used, what soldiers wrote home to their sweethearts and mothers, the best way to use a tank, how troops flattened a hillside, and the meaning of Armistice Day. Discover how it felt to go over the top, what happened to all the bodies, how people dealt with shell shock, why war led to revolution, and much, much more.