The Siege: Kut El Amarah, Mesopotamia 1916
By Russell Braddon
Published By The Viking Press
Year Published 1970
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
This book recounts the circumstances leading up to the infamous Battle of Kut, the arrogance of some of the Officers involved and the appalling conditions suffered by the ordinary soldiers. After the surrender, the brutality of the Turks towards their lower rank prisoners was astounding. In the meantime officers were kept in captivity with all the parks they could wish for. The book goes on to describe in detail how the officer class failed to protect their men. All in all, this is a sorry tale of military and political incompetence, resulting in the death or capture of 43,000 Anglo-Indian troops By the Turkish Army. This proved to be Britain’s greatest humiliation of the First World War.
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By Russell Braddon
Published By The Viking Press
Year Published 1970
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
This book recounts the circumstances leading up to the infamous Battle of Kut, the arrogance of some of the Officers involved and the appalling conditions suffered by the ordinary soldiers. After the surrender, the brutality of the Turks towards their lower rank prisoners was astounding. In the meantime officers were kept in captivity with all the parks they could wish for. The book goes on to describe in detail how the officer class failed to protect their men. All in all, this is a sorry tale of military and political incompetence, resulting in the death or capture of 43,000 Anglo-Indian troops By the Turkish Army. This proved to be Britain’s greatest humiliation of the First World War.
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By Russell Braddon
Published By The Viking Press
Year Published 1970
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
This book recounts the circumstances leading up to the infamous Battle of Kut, the arrogance of some of the Officers involved and the appalling conditions suffered by the ordinary soldiers. After the surrender, the brutality of the Turks towards their lower rank prisoners was astounding. In the meantime officers were kept in captivity with all the parks they could wish for. The book goes on to describe in detail how the officer class failed to protect their men. All in all, this is a sorry tale of military and political incompetence, resulting in the death or capture of 43,000 Anglo-Indian troops By the Turkish Army. This proved to be Britain’s greatest humiliation of the First World War.
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