Kut

Ronald Millar’s Kut: The Death of an Army is the fascinating, yet largely forgotten, story of the British-Indian Army during World War I. This expert account of the five-month Turkish siege of the British-Indian Army in Mesopotamia between 1915 and 1916 reveals the tragic events that led to the army’s defeat when their enemies essentially outlasted them. Ronald Millar reveals the day-to-day preoccupations of not only the Anglo-Indian forces, but their enemies—the Turks—as well as local civilians