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The siege

The siege

by Russell Braddon

military blundersmilitaryBritish empireHistoryWorld history
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The Siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the First Battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British-Indian garrison in the town of Kut, 160 kilometres (100 mi) south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915 its population was around 6,500. Following the surrender of the garrison on 29 April 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo, during which many died. Historian Christopher Catherwood has called the siege "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War I". Russell Braddon describes this siege and the aftermath in this must-read volume.

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military blundersmilitaryBritish empireHistoryWorld history

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Al Kūt (Iraq)Kut Al AmaraSiege, 1915-1916

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Russell Braddon
Russell Braddon

1921-01-25 – 1995-03-20

Author

Russell Braddon

Pages

352

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Cape

ISBN

0224617931

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