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Betrayal of an Army: Mesopotamia 1914-1916

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The British invasion of Mesopotamia used to be first of all successful in securing the oil fields around Basra by November 1914.

Despite evidence of stiffening Turkish resistance and inadequate supply lines which relied solely at the River Tigris, the Expeditionary Force used to be disastrously ordered to advance on Baghdad under the command of the ambitious, capable but incorrect Major General Charles Townshend. After a pyrrhic victory at Ctesiphon in November 1915 the British were forced to withdraw to Kut. After a five month siege Townshend had little option but to give up because of heavy losses and inadequate supplies.

Such used to be the humiliation and lack of life that the British Parliament ordered a Mesopotamia Commission to be set up. This attributed responsibility and blame to the toxic combination of incompetent leadership and wholesale military misjudgement.

This fine book re-examines the circumstances and personalities that caused the sort of disastrous and dear outcome to a classic example of ‘mission creep’.

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