Abstract
This article examines changing British perceptions of Mesopotamia during the First World War using archives held at the Imperial War Museum, London. Drawing on the letters, memoirs and diaries of men and women of different ranks, backgrounds and classes, as well as interviews conducted in later years by the Museum or the BBC, it shows that war overlaid a place already rich with cultural significance in Britain with mythologies and resonance of its own.
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