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World War I in Mesopotamia: The British and the Ottomans in Iraq (Library of Middle East History)

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The Mesopotamian campaign all over World War I used to be a critical moment in Britain’s position in the Middle East. With British and British Indian troops fighting in places which have develop into well-known in the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, such as Basra, the campaign led to the establishment of the British Mandate in Iraq in 1921. Nadia Atia believes that with a view to fully consider Britain’s policies in creating the nascent state of Iraq, we will have to first look at how the war shaped Britons’ conceptions of the region. Atia does this through a cultural and military history of the changing British perceptions of Mesopotamia since the period before World War I when it was under Ottoman rule. Drawing on all kinds of historical and literary sources, including the writing of key figures such as Gertrude Bell, Mark Sykes and Arnold Wilson, but focusing mainly on the views and experiences of odd women and men whose stories and experiences of the war have less regularly been told, Atia examines the cultural and social legacy of World War I in the Middle East and how this affected British attempts to exert influence in the region.

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