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Mons, Anzac and Kut: By an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)
Mons, Anzac and Kut: By an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)
Mons, Anzac and Kut: By an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)
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Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from official military service and he became a diplomat and politician. However in 1914 he attached himself unofficially to the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war on their way to France and was made an honorary Lieutenant. Despite his service overseas in France, the Dardanelles and then Egypt and Iraq, he remained an MP throughout the War. He was briefly captured in the Retreat from Mons and, after recovering from his wounds, he joined the Intelligence Bureau in Egypt before being attached to the New Zealand and Australian Division at Gallipoli. He personally persuaded General Ian Hamilton, the overall Commander, to agree a temporary truce with the Turks to enable the burial of the dead and the recovery of wounded men in no-mans-land. Later in Iraq, his efforts to buy the release of the beleaguered British garrison at Kut were less successful. His extraordinary war experiences brought him into close contact with a wide cast of characters, not least T E Lawrence, Compton McKenzie and leading military and political figures.
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Release dateMar 10, 2010
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    Herbert had a somewhat unique experience during WWI. First served at Mons where he was injured and sent out of theater. Following his recovery, he was sent to the Dardanelles where he served as an interpreter and de facto intelligence officer, based on his knowledge of Turkish. Lastly he served in Mesopotamia, arriving on the eve of the capitulation of Kut, where he (along with Lawrence and others) served in the negotiating party looking to secure the beleagured British division's release.The book is unique in many aspects. While the prose leaves something to be desired, his diary covers a lot of the horror(s) of each front, particularly with his coverage of the Dardanelles campaign, where his peers, and fellow soldiers were shot all around him, and he lived to tell the tale.What I found most interesting, and others (such as Lengel did not), was his albeit brief narrative of his time in Mesopotamia. He served along with T.E. Lawrence and Col Beach as the negotiators with the Turks over Gen Townshend's division, holed up at Kut. There is very little that has been written about the negotiations surrounding the ultimate unconditiional surrender of British forces at Kut, and Herbert has given us a unique perspective.Some of the people that Herbert ran across during his brief time in Mesopotamia read like a whos who of the campaign: aside from all of the senior military officers of that time, he met Lt Col Leachman and Gertrude Bell, both who played an important behind the scenes role in the Mesopotamian Campaign. Additionally, he spent a great deal of time with CAPT Nunn, who headed British Naval forces in Mesopotamia.A great quick read; and like many of the other books written at the time in Mesopotamia, ending quite abruptly.

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