More on the Siege of Kut al-Amara
ChrestomatherI recently posted an exchange of letters between myself and Chris Howell, who wrote to me after reading my posts on the Mesopotamia campaign of 1915-16 in the…
Correspondence on the siege of Kut al-Amara, 1916
March 17, 2014 Dear Mr Ghosh, Earlier today I came across your ‘On to Baghdad’ page on the net. Ten years ago I wrote and published a…
Correspondence on the Liverpool connections of 1st World War military doctor Kalyan Mukherji
Feb 18, 2014 Dear Amitav, I discovered your wonderful blog entries about Kalyan Kumar Mukherji whilst researching First World War soldiers from the Liverpool area. I initially became interested in Captain…
The Lascar War Memorial, Kolkata
The Lascar War Memorial is located in the Indian Naval premises of Hastings, Kolkata. In 1920, William Ingram Keir, an Associate of the Royal Institute of…
A Jewish connection with pre-war Rangoon
Dear Mr. Ghosh I just finished reading your book The Glass Palace. I enjoyed it very much. It has a very personal meaning to me and I would…