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They bring accounts of Townshend's gallant defense of Mesopotamia's great strategic point. Some are mere youngsters while others were soldiers before the war. "All are frightfully emaciated and are veritable skeletons as the result of their starvation and sufferings.

- The Story of the Great War, Volume 5 : Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War