1915 Retreating British force attacked by pursuing Ottomans at Um at Tubul after loss at Battle of
Ctesiphon/Salman Pak
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1915 Retreating British force attacked by pursuing Ottomans at Um at Tubul after loss at Battle of
Ctesiphon/Salman Pak
Bashkin, Orit, New Babylonians, A History Of Jews In Modern Iraq, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012
New Babylonians, A History Of Jews In Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin is an outstanding book about how Jews attempted to become citizens of Iraq and then how the state turned against them. She argues that Jews adopted Arab language, culture and the politics of the day. Things changed after World War II as the government and Arab nationalist groups began equating Jews with Zionism and persecuted the community leading to the majority to leave for Israel. Bashkin did a huge amount of research into Iraqi papers, journals and writers of the time which gives his book a great deal of depth as she covers territory that has not been discussed by others.
1915 Ottomans attacked retreating UK forces from Ctesiphon/Salman Pak at Um at Tubul
Forced UK to retreat further south UK suffered 37 dead 218 missing 218 wounded 520 taken prisoner along with 2 ships Turks had 748 casualties
1914 Gen Barrett and Sir Percy Cox asked that UK occupation of Basra be announced as
permanent believing it would sway Arabs to UK side Request turned down
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
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Farmer in Baaj, Ninewa looking at what used to be farmland (Norwegian Refugee Council) |
1623 Safavids took Baghdad after son of governor betrayed him Tortured and killed Sunnis and
destroyed Sunni mosques and shrines
1915 Retreating British force attacked by pursuing Ottomans at Um at Tubul after loss at Battle of Ctesiphon/Salman Pa...