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TIGRIS GUNBOATS THE FORGOTTEN WAR IN IRAQ 1914-1917

Written by Wilfred Nunn
Published by Chatham Publishing in 2007
ISBN: 9781861763082

TIGRIS GUNBOATS THE FORGOTTEN WAR IN IRAQ 1914-1917
Written by Wilfred Nunn.
Stock no. 2136698
1st thus. 2007. Hardback. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

On the outbreak of the War in 1914 Wilfred Nunn was the commander of the gunboat Espiegle on the East Indies station. His ship was sent to the Arabian Gulf to defend British oil interests, and he thus became the senior naval officer on the Tigris river throughout the Iraq campaign, up to the capture of Bagdad in 1917. ISBN: 9781861763082.

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