Book review: enemy on the Euphrates: the battle for Iraq, 1914-1921

Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921 documents the British Empire’s occupation of Iraq during the First World War and the subsequent uprising against its rule. The author, Ian Rutledge, offers ‘a story of imperial arrogance and plunder, and the inevitable reaction that it generates’, writes William Eichler.