In the Clouds Above Baghdad: Recollections of the R. F. C. in Mesopotamia during the First World War Against the Turks - Hardcoverby J. E. Tennant (Author) War in the air over the Middle East Mesopotamia, 'the land of the two rivers', is deemed the birthplace of civilisation. Now modern day Iraq, it has known warfare throughout the millennia that man has inhabited it. By the first years of the twentieth century the Ottoman Turkish Empire had claimed Mesopotamia as their own and its alliance with Germany during the Great War brought battle to it once more. For the first time