TIGRIS GUNBOATS THE FORGOTTEN WAR IN IRAQ 1914-1917
by Wilfred Nunn
Published by Chatham Publishing. 1st. 2007
Very good condition in a 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.
Fading along cover edges. Some marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.
ISBN: 9781861763082
Stock no. 2125717
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- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- IRAQ
- NAVY
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