University Press of America
Pages: 454
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-0-7618-3448-9 • Paperback • May 2006 • $85.99 • (£66.00)
Mohammad Gholi Majd holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University. He is the author of The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919, and The Great American Plunder of Persia's Antiquities, 1925-1941, both from the University Press of America.
Chapter 1 1. Iraq on the Eve of World War I
Chapter 2 2. Declarations of War against Turkey
Chapter 3 3. British Invasion of Iraq and Capture of Basra and Shatt al Arab
Chapter 4 4. Pause in British Advance and the Situation in Bagdad, January-April, 1915
Chapter 5 5. Defeat of Turkish Counter Offensive: Battles of Suez and Shaiba
Chapter 6 6. British Capture of Amara, Nasiriya, and Kut al Amara
Chapter 7 7. British Subjects in Iraq and Disturbances in Najaf and Kerbala
Chapter 8 8. Tension in Bagdad and Measures against Christians and Jews
Chapter 9 9. Battle of Ctesiphon: British Failure to Take Bagdad and Retreat to Kut
Chapter 10 10. British Failure to Lift the Siege of Kut and its Surrender
Chapter 11 11. British Occupation of South Persia, 1915
Chapter 12 12. Impact of Russian Campaign in Persia on the War in Iraq
Chapter 13 13. Subjugation of the Tribes and Preparations for Renewed British Offensive
Chapter 14 14. British Offensive and Capture of Bagdad
Chapter 15 15. Spring 1917 Offensive and Expansion of the British Force
Chapter 16 16. Final Year of War and Completion of British Occupation of Iraq
Chapter 17 17. Onset of British Rule in Iraq
Chapter 18 18. Iraq's Commercial Decline
Chapter 19 19. The Toll from Disease
Mohammad Gholi Majd has provided historians with valuable insight into Iraq during these pivotal yearsssss
— 2008; International Journal of Middle East Studies
Mohammad Gholi Majd has provided historians with valuable insight into Iraq during these pivotal years
— 2008; International Journal of Middle East Studies