The Siege

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ISBN-10:

0583119425

ISBN-13:

9780583119429

Author(s): Russell Braddon
Edition: n.e.
Released: Jan 01, 1971
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
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Description:

In the winter of 1915-16, Kut el Amarah, a primitive and filthy settlement on the banks of the Tigris, was the scene of the most humiliating - and possibly most futile - disaster to befall a British force until the rout of Singapore in 1942. It was here that General Townshend decided to hold out with his division of 10,000 combatant troops against a superior besieging force of Turks and Arab conscripts after his abortive attempt to capture Baghdad. The Siege of Kut lasted one hundred and forty-seven days - an epic of endurance, starvation and disease - until Townshend finally surrendered.


























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