The Bastard War: The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918Dial Press, 1967 - 449 Seiten |
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... casualties and the Turks ' rifle fire was very inaccurate . Persistence had its reward ; as the attackers pressed on ... casualties were over a thousand . This was probably an exaggeration . Nevertheless they had certainly suffered ...
... casualties and the Turks ' rifle fire was very inaccurate . Persistence had its reward ; as the attackers pressed on ... casualties were over a thousand . This was probably an exaggeration . Nevertheless they had certainly suffered ...
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... casualties in the three days fighting amounted to over twelve hundred al- though the Turks had suffered twice this ... casualties 1,257 ; Turkish casualties among the regular troops 54 officers , 2,381 other ranks - a figure which does ...
... casualties in the three days fighting amounted to over twelve hundred al- though the Turks had suffered twice this ... casualties 1,257 ; Turkish casualties among the regular troops 54 officers , 2,381 other ranks - a figure which does ...
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... casualty clearing center , tents had been put up for them , but the ground was so muddy that they sank up to their boots in mire . Into these tents the casualties , cold and exhausted with pain and loss of blood , were dumped ; all ...
... casualty clearing center , tents had been put up for them , but the ground was so muddy that they sank up to their boots in mire . Into these tents the casualties , cold and exhausted with pain and loss of blood , were dumped ; all ...
Inhalt
Prologue | 3 |
Chapter 1 | 18 |
Chapter 2 | 40 |
Urheberrecht | |
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13th Division 19th Brigade Abadan action Adhaim advance Ali Gharbi Amara Arabs Army arrived artillery assault attack Aylmer Aziziyeh Baghdad Baquba Baratoff Basra battalions battle Black Watch boats bridge BRIG British and Indian British troops Buddhoos campaign Canal captured casualties Cavalry Brigade column command crossing Ctesiphon defences Delamain Diyala Dujaila effect Euphrates Falluja fighting fire flank flood forward front line Gallipoli garrison German Gorringe Gurkhas Hanna hundred Ihsan India infantry Khalil Khanaqin Kiazim left bank machine guns March Marsh Marshall Maude Maude's Melliss Mesopotamia miles military morning Mosul move Nasiriyeh night Nixon officers operations Persian pontoons prisoners Punjabis Qurna railway Ramadi Redoubt Regiment reinforcements Relief Force rifles right bank Russian Samarrah Sannaiyat sent Shaiba Sheikh Sa'ad ships Shumran Sinn soldiers soon staff steamers success supply thousand Tigris Corps Tikrit town Townshend transport trenches Turkish positions Turks Whitehall wounded yards