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Desert hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia /
The U.S.-led conquest and occupation of Iraq have kept that troubled country in international headlines since 2003. For America's major Coalition ally, Great Britain, however, this latest incursion into the region played out against the dramatic backdrop of imperial history: Britain's fate...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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 siege
- 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.