The First Iraq War--1914-1918: Britain's Mesopotamian Campaign - A. J. Barker - Google Books

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When Allah made Hell, runs the Arab proverb, he did not find it bad enough, so he made Mesopotamia—and added flies. What was a British Army doing in this Godforsaken place and how had it all come about?A.J. Barker’s masterful retelling of the story of…