The Epic of Mesopotamia — David M. Kiely

1916 â€" 2016

One hundred years ago, in the wake of the Easter Rising, defeated Irish rebels surrendered to a British general. That same day, a defeated British general surrendered to the Ottoman Turks.

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.