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WW1: The Siege of Kut, Iraq

Witness: Witness Archive 2015 by BBC

Dec 8, 20159:01Society & Culture

In 1915, an Anglo-Indian attempt to capture Baghdad from the Ottoman empire ended in disaster. Thousands of British and Indian troops spent five months besieged in the small town of Kut, south of Baghdad, until they were...