The Leicestershires Beyond Baghdad (Classic Reprint)

The Mesopotamian War was a side-show, so distant from Europe that even the tragedy of Kut and the slaughter which failed to save our troops and prestige were felt chiefly in retrospect, when the majority of the men who suffered so vainly had gone into the silence of death or of captivity. When Maude soffensive carried our arms again into Kut, and beyond, to Baghdad, interest revived; but of the hard fighting which followed, which made Baghdad secure, nothing has been made known, or next to nothing. The men in Mesopotamia did not feel that this was unnatural. We felt, none more so, that it was the European War which mattered; indeed, our lot often seemed the harder by reason of its little apparent importance. Yet, after all, Baghdad was the first substantial victory which no subsequent reverse swept away; and it came when the need of victory, for very prestiges sake, was very great. Mr. Candler has written, bitterly enough, of the way the Censorship impeded him in his work as official Eye-witness. His was a thankless task ;as he well knows, few of us, though we were all his friends, have not groused at his reports of our operations.
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