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In our latest podcast, we head to one of the Great War's forgotten fronts - Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq. A campaign that was almost medieval in its approach to fighting, the critical waterway, the Shatt al Arab became the focus of fighting in a landscape devoid of any proper infrastructure.
In this episode we look at some of the key events, culminating in an analysis of the siege of Kut, a 147-day campaign that cost the lives of 30,000 Allied soldiers, and sent 13,000 men on a death march to Turkish captivity, of which 1 in 4 died.
What have we learned from the fighting in Iraq one hundred years ago and what will future historians make of the current global situation?
https://www.patreon.com/foostepsofthefallen
By Matt Dixon4.9
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Send us a text
In our latest podcast, we head to one of the Great War's forgotten fronts - Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq. A campaign that was almost medieval in its approach to fighting, the critical waterway, the Shatt al Arab became the focus of fighting in a landscape devoid of any proper infrastructure.
In this episode we look at some of the key events, culminating in an analysis of the siege of Kut, a 147-day campaign that cost the lives of 30,000 Allied soldiers, and sent 13,000 men on a death march to Turkish captivity, of which 1 in 4 died.
What have we learned from the fighting in Iraq one hundred years ago and what will future historians make of the current global situation?
https://www.patreon.com/foostepsofthefallen

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