Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge

Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt 1914-1921

Ian Rutledge

471 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
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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 led by Shi'i clerics, B...

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