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The harrowing yet often humorous experiences of a British Medical officer taken captive at the surrender of Kut in modern Iraq during the Great War. Colonel Bill Spackman describes the suffering of British and Indian troops under his care with great compassion, providing eloquent testimony to the triumph of the human spirit.
The surrender to the Turks of the British and Indian garrison at Kut-al-Amara in Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq) is, along with Gallipoli, the worst military defeat of the Great War in the Middle East. The author of these harrowing diaries, Col. Bill Spackman, was the Medical Officer of an Indian battalion at Kut, and he describes the siege, the surrender of the General Charles Townshend's 10,000 strong garrison and the appalling treatment subsequently meted out to his men by the Turks in stark detail. Spackmen and his fellow POWs were compelled to make a 1,000 mile trek into captivity in Turkish Anatolia, and was forced to watch many of his men sicken and die en route. As an officer his experiences were less harsh than many of the other ranks, and his diaries make for revealing reading, not only for their portrait of an unfamiliar aspect of the Great War, but for their portrayal of the triumph of the human spirit over great suffering.
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21491 |
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Colonel R A Spackman |
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9781844158737 |
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HB 224 pp
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