African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves ...

“Under a policy so rigorously defined,” read the Mesopotamia Commission, “it is not unnatural that military and medical officers thought that they were best discharging their duty to the ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

This Soldiers' Small Book was issued to my maternal ... who served in the First World War as one of them, Reginald, died in Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 1916 and the Imperial War Graves website has ...

The Lost Patrol is a tale of a claustrophobic survival nightmare for soldiers set in the Mesopotamian desert. Though largely overlooked compared to his later works, The Lost Patrol stands ...