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World War I in Mesopotamia - The British and the Ottomans in Iraq (Hardcover)
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World War I in Mesopotamia - The British and the Ottomans in Iraq (Hardcover)
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The Mesopotamian campaign during World War I was a critical moment
in Britain's position in the Middle East. With British and British
Indian troops fighting in places which have become well-known in
the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, such as Basra, the campaign
led to the establishment of the British Mandate in Iraq in 1921.
Nadia Atia believes that in order to fully understand Britain's
policies in creating the nascent state of Iraq, we must first look
at how the war shaped Britons' conceptions of the region. Atia does
this through a cultural and military history of the changing
British perceptions of Mesopotamia since the period before World
War I when it was under Ottoman rule. Drawing on a wide variety of
historical and literary sources, including the writing of key
figures such as Gertrude Bell, Mark Sykes and Arnold Wilson, but
focusing mainly on the views and experiences of ordinary men and
women whose stories and experiences of the war have less frequently
been told, Atia examines the cultural and social legacy of World
War I in the Middle East and how this affected British attempts to
exert influence in the region.
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