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Desert hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia / Charles Townshend.
LIBRA D568.5 .T68 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Townshend, Charles.
- Standardized Title:
- When God made hell
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Iraq.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- History.
- International relations.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--Iraq.
- Great Britain.
- Iraq--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 591 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Basra. Into Mesopotamia
- 'An unexpected stroke'
- Turks and Indians
- Basra
- 'Conciliating the Arabs'
- Qurna
- 'Morally responsible to humanity and to civilization'
- 'One of the decisive battles of the world'
- Townshend's regatta
- Up the Euphrates
- To Kut
- Kut. To Baghdad?
- To Salman Pak
- Ctesiphon
- Retreat
- Under seige
- To the rescue
- Marking time
- Flood and famine
- Dujaila : the second battle for Kut
- Failure
- Surrender
- Baghdad. Policy paralysed: Egypt v. India
- Administration and punishment
- Retooling the army
- Captivity
- Inquiry
- Maude's offensive: the third battle for Kut
- Baghdad at last
- Maude's moment
- Mosul. Northern exposure
- Maude's end
- Strengthening the hold
- Caucasian fantasies
- Victory
- Self-determination?
- Retrenchment
- Rebellion
- Kingdom come
- Kurdistan for the Kurds?
- The world decides.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: When God made hell. London : Faber, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-561) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674059993
- 0674059999
- OCLC:
- 676725358
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