Nothing to Fall Back On
Charles Tripp: Invading Iraq in 1914, 5 July 2007
Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq 1914-17
by Wilfred Nunn.
Chatham, 288 pp., £19.99, March 2007,978 1 86176 308 2 Show More
by Wilfred Nunn.
Chatham, 288 pp., £19.99, March 2007,
“... is real enough. It is this, presumably, that has led to the republication of Vice-Admiral Wilfred Nunn’s Tigris Gunboats, with a new introduction by Jeremy Greenstock, the British representative in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. Nunn was the commander of a warship, HMS Espiègle, sent to protect British oil ... ”
