BETRAYAL OF AN ARMY: MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1916
Written by N.S. Nash
Published by Pen & Sword Military
in 2016
ISBN: 9781473843769
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BETRAYAL OF AN ARMY: MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1916
Written by N.S. Nash.
Stock no. 1829908
1st.
2016.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
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. Grey cloth boards, red title to spine. B/w photos. xii and 300 pages including index. ISBN: 9781473843769. A superb copy, looks unread!
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations and Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Hardinge at Bay
- Chapter 2 Mesopotamia and its Oil
- Chapter 3 Invasion and the Capture of Basra
- Chapter 4 The Capture of Kurnah
- Chapter 5 Chitral Charlie, his Regatta and the Capture of Amara
- Chapter 6 The Capture of Kut
- Chapter 7 What Next?
- Chapter 8 Advance to Ctesiphon
- Chapter 9 The Pyrrhic Victory at Ctesiphon
- Chapter 10 The Retreat to Kut
- Chapter 11 The Siege: Early Days, December 1915
- Chapter 12 January 1916: The Batles of Sheikh Saad and the Wadi River
- Chapter 13 February-March 1916: The Battle of the Dukaila Redoubt
- Chapter 14 April 1916: The Battle of Sannaiyat the Capitulation
- Chapter 15 Aftermath
- Chapter 16 The Inquiry
- Chapter 17 The Debate
- Chapter 18 Responsibility - the Reckoning
- Appendix A Whatever happened to Old?
- Appendix B Witnesses Who Appeared Before the Mesopotamia Commission
- Appendix C An Analysis of Kiplings Mesopotamia
- Bibliography
- Index