In Mesopotamia

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In this book, the author recounts details of the British campaign during World War I in southern Iraq from his perspective as an officer in the British Medical Corps. He presents, in a smooth, beautiful, and moving literary style, the details of his daily life while building the field hospital in southern Iraq, his daily work, and his follow-up of medical cases. In the chapters, he analyzes in great and surprising depth the suffering of soldiers from the heat, scorching sun, and disease, along with in-depth analyses of the reality of life at the time and various references to the conditions of the local population and the state of poverty and deprivation they endured, which forced some of them to resort to looting and plunder. The book is enhanced with a beautiful collection of illustrations, created by the author himself. This book represents an enjoyable journey into the conditions of the country and its people during that dark era in Iraq's modern history.

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