Recollections of the Siege of Kut & After

Two Accounts by Indian Army Officers During the First World War in Mesopotamia-Besieged in Kut and After by Charles H. Barber & A Kut Prisoner by H. C. W. Bishop

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Two eyewitness accounts of the disaster of Kut and after The First World War as it was fought in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) against the Ottoman Turkish Empire has received considerably less attention from British historians than other aspects of that conflict. While this was indisputably a 'side show theatre' of the greater struggle, it was nevertheless a difficult campaign, fought in an unforgiving landscape, often in punishing heat where disease took a greater toll of life than bullets. Mos... (Læs mere)