The Epic Of Mesopotamia

1915 - 2015 One hundred years ago a British military force set sail from Basra in a ragtag flotilla of boats. Their orders were clear: "Stop the Turks at Baghdad. They want the oil of Mesopotamia. So do we." This is the story of Robert Lampeter, a young officer and filmmaker who survived the disastrous campaign, and a brutal imprisonment. In 1921, Lampeter is a tortured soul, living in Paris. His memory of captivity is flawed, but recurring nightmares suggest the worst. At a dinner party for James Joyce and his forthcoming novel, Ulysses, Lampeter meets an attractive American journalist: Blanche Fiore. The scene is set for romance. Yet Iraq and the genocide of hapless Christians bedevil Lampeter's past, and will not allow him to live a normal life. Those horrors have scarred both his body and mind. And the war continues to intrude on Blanche's plans to win her enigmatic English beau. Marrying fiction with highly disturbing fact, this is an epic novel of WWI as no other. 9781463604134 1463604130 746 Fiction NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2VsUrgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: David M. Kiely
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Jan 31, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 746 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1463604130
• • ISBN-13: 9781463604134