The Siege of Kut-al-Amara : at war in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916 /

Gardner, Nikolas, 1970-

The Siege of Kut-al-Amara : at war in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916 / Nikolas Gardner. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014. - xiv, 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Twentieth-century battles .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.

Charles Townshend and his army: 6 Indian Division in the fall of 1915 -- Townshend's advance on Baghdad: September-November 1915 -- Retreat from Ctesiphon: 25 November-7 December -- Outset of the siege: December 1915 -- Operations of the relief force: January 1916 -- Deprivation and defeat: February-March 1916 -- Innovation, starvation, and surrender: April 1916.

9780253013842 (cloth)


World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Iraq.


Al Kūt (Iraq)--History--Siege, 1915-1916.

D568.5 / .G37 2014