Ebook: Enemy on the Euphrates : the British occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921
Author: Rutledge Ian
- Tags: World War 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Iraq, Iraq -- History -- Revolt 1920, Military campaigns, Iraq, Besetzung, Weltkrieg, Irak, Großbritannien
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- City: Großbritannien, Irak, Array
- Language: English
- epub
Between July 1920 and February 1921, in the territory known as Mesopotamia--now the modern state of Iraq--an Arab uprising came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire. A huge peasant army led by Shi'i clerics, Baghdad notables, disaffected sheikhs and former Ottoman army officers surrounded and besieged British garrisons with sandbagged entrenchments; British columns and armoured Read more...