TY - BOOK AU - Atia,Nadia TI - World War I Mesopotamia: the British and the Ottamans in Iraq SN - 9781784531461 U1 - 956.704431 22 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - I.B Tauris & Co.Ltd. KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Destruction and pillage KW - Archaeological thefts KW - Iraq KW - Antiquities N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index; Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view -- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period -- Getting to the postwar planning table -- The meetings -- A punctual disaster: the looting of the National Museum of Iraq -- The world responds -- The slow-motion disaster: post-combat looting of archaeological sites -- Deathwatch for Iraqi antiquities ER -