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Cargando... With the Persian expeditionpor Martin Henry Donohoe
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The author, a war correspondent for the Daily Chronicle newspaper in the Balkans in the early part of the Great War, was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in Dec 1916. Early in 1918 after escaping the Bolshevik Red terror in Petrograd, Donohoe accompanied the Bagdad Party that left Britain to reinforce Dunsterforce a semi-guerilla unit commanded by Major General Dunsterville (the original of Stalky in Rudyard Kipling s school novel Stalky & Co. ) Dunsterforce was trying to foment Persian opposition to their Turkish overlords, training indiginous Persian police to take charge of their troubled country; and striving to counter Soviet Communist influence in Persia (Iran) and Transcaucasia. This exciting account, published in association with the Imperial War Museum, describes the events that followed. The text is accompanied by an important and interesting appendix on the Dunsterforce Armoured Car Brigade, and much information on local peoples and their customs. Ilustrated with maps and sixteen photographic plates. A rare account of a forgotten corner of the Great War. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Donohoe has some interesting observations as he moves through an already occupied Mesopotamia, well after the debacle at Kut. However, his observations are noteworthy as he advanced through Persia. His depictions of the famine, and how the local landlords pay scant attention to the suffering of the peasantry is worthwhile reading.
His storyline of the to and fro of the small token force he was attached to is an adequate accounting of the skirmishes between British troops and their poorly trained (and therefore unreliable) Persian levies. It is remarkable that his small force was not overrun many times over, but for the skittishness of the Turkish forces in that sector.
Donohoe was also detailed to a sector of Kurdistan, and his anecdotal observations of the Kurds, Nestorians are descriptive to say the least.
Where I thought the book left me wanting war, was his anti-climatic coverage of the end of the war, and the final appendix, almost thrown in as an afterthought, giving a very basic glance at the other operations of Dunsterforce.
WHile there are not many books detailing Dunsterforce, any accounting is worth the read to provide differing perspectives. And certainly this book meets that criteria. However, Rawlinson's and Dunsterville's accounts of this front provide a greater narrative, with a lot more detail of the actual military operations.
Nevertheless, an important contribution to the history of this forgotten theater. ( )