Название: Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921
Автор: Ian Rutledge
Издательство: Saqi Books
ISBN: 0863567622
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 455
Размер: 4,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Between July 1920 and February 1921, in the territory known as Mesopotamia - now the modern state of Iraq - an Arab uprising came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire. A huge peasant army surrounded and besieged British garrisons with sand-bagged entrenchments; British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed; and well-armed British gunboats were sunk or captured.