A British artillery officer kept a diary through the retreat from Ctesiphon and the five-month siege of Kut-al-Amara, which ended in the British surrender of April 1916. He continued it through the brutal march across Mesopotamia and Anatolia into Turkish prison camps, hiding the manuscript in captivity, and adds the intrigues of wartime Constantinople.
A rare day-by-day record of one of the Great War’s worst British defeats and its terrible aftermath. Download the free EPUB.