For anyone wondering what happened to the sole survivor of the brutal massacre, Princess Badiya made it out of Iraq alive and passed away in 2020 in London, aged 100.

@johndough1703

20 күн бұрын

Women: Having it easy since "Ooh ooh, aah aah"

@Tko_Seven

18 күн бұрын

Anglo-Saxons are real good at divide and conquer.

@GM-xk1nw

17 күн бұрын

​@@johndough1703 we don't give birth, we do not get forcibly married.

@frantisekcenek1199

16 күн бұрын

?​@@johndough1703

@NiskaMagnusson

13 күн бұрын

@@johndough1703 who hurt you?

Good to see you covering this Dr Felton. As an Iraqi, i have heard this story in various anecdotes throughout my life. To understand it from a reliable historian like yourself made me very happy indeed!

@user-wu1dv6jk5s

24 күн бұрын

he is not a "reliable historian", do your own research

@h.b.7104

23 күн бұрын

He forgot the most important part--that the CIA brought the Baath to power. What kind of historian would do that?

@100milliongamesandmore9

23 күн бұрын

​@@h.b.7104 Why would the CIA help bring a pan-Arab pro-Islamic party to power exactly ?

@el_giggi8185

22 күн бұрын

@@h.b.7104 As a historian, he is able to tell two different events apart. This video deals primarily with the ousting of the royal family and not the coup against Qasim.

@h.b.7104

22 күн бұрын

@@el_giggi8185 The title of this video is in part "The Rise of Saddam Hussein." You cannot tell that story without focusing on 1963--the Baathist coup against Qassim aided by the CIA.

The problem with taking power by regicide is that it leaves a really bad example for your successor.

@barryirlandi4217

24 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@minhthunguyendang9900

24 күн бұрын

with dire consequences for oneself

@moamber1

24 күн бұрын

@@minhthunguyendang9900 Soviets disagree. They killed their idiot monarch with no consequences, except for British temper tantrum.

@insertnamehere5809

24 күн бұрын

That's why Chairman Mao didn't kill Pu Yi, because if he became a good Maoist (which he became) that was a great PR coup for Mao, compared to how the Soviets deposed the Romanovs.

@AryanKumar-fz2dm

23 күн бұрын

@@insertnamehere5809 That is true, due to ongoing Sino-Soviet split, mao wanted to show the soviets that see, we do not kill our head of the previous royal government, like how you did. I didn't know that Pu-Yi became a maoist in later years.

One of my work colleagues is a Syrian expat now living in the UK, when I showed him this video, he was both fascinated and and pleased that there's history of European history in the Middle East videos that exist in the West. He asked me to thank Dr Felton for this video :)

@DaveSCameron

24 күн бұрын

Shocked..? There’s countless publications that explain this awful era of UN/France/British well intentioned acts and lets be honest people require leaders and we Could argue the merits of who they are forever but they ended up with Saddam after this, a man who murdered many of his own people and caused -2 wars.

@Manco65

24 күн бұрын

I just love how some apparently would want the region to be nothing but a totally and allegedly "free and independent" place.🙄 Where the civilization is a medieval or worse cross between the "Sand People' of Star Wars and our own troglodytes. Where women are treated like animals and animals are treated like women. Yeah greatwowee..🙄

@ArizonaAstraLLC

24 күн бұрын

​@@DaveSCameron Sadaam did horrible things but If he didn't start those two wars (Iran-Iran War 1982 and GulfWar because of his 1990 invasion occupation / annexation of Kuwait) It would be in good shape The Iran-Iraq War alone cost both sides 1 trillion USD and destroyed Iraq's military and economy; they were existing off of rich Saudi and Emirati loans The man was his own worst enemy

@BonShula

24 күн бұрын

What a ignorant co-worker

@Enhancedlies

23 күн бұрын

free speech is a powerful thing

One point missed, Faisal was given Iraq by the British as a consolation prize. Faisal was promised Arabia for his support of the British during WWI and instead Arabia went to the House of Saud, hence Saudi Arabia.

@aus_aircon_ref_mech6671

24 күн бұрын

No! Sharif Hussein was promised rule over the whole of Arabia and The Levant, as well as Mesopotamia. In exchange for rebelling against the Ottoman Turks, thereby aiding the British. The Arabs fulfilled their part of the deal, but were back stabbed by the British in the wake of the Sykes-Picot agreement and The Balfour Declaration. In true British style, the sons of Sharif Hussein ended up being installed by The British as puppet rulers over Transjordan and Iraq (although the Iraqi Hashemites did initially take power over Syria but were defeated at the battle of Maysaloun by the French in 1922). Really Dr. Felton “partial British interference” are you kidding me. The reason the Middle East is in such a mess was precisely BECAUSE the British back-stabbed the arabs and ended up dividing the whole of the Middle East between themselves and the French! Giving Palestine away and fighting proxy wars in the region. It’s already bad the general public have no clue about the history of the Middle East but to tell half-truths is just as bad.

@ElectroAtletico

24 күн бұрын

Arabia "DID NOT GO" to the Sauds. They won a tribal war.

@aus_aircon_ref_mech6671

24 күн бұрын

“partly caused by British interference….”a subtle way of saying that a superpower can and will screw over everyone in that part of the world because they can….

@aus_aircon_ref_mech6671

24 күн бұрын

In this video if you replace the word “British” with the word “USA”….the narrative will exactly match the events of the past 25-30 years. Funny how some things don’t change….

@captainjoshuagleiberman2778

24 күн бұрын

@@ElectroAtletico which if the British kept their bargain with Faisal, the Sauds would have lost.

My family was close to the Royal family in Iraq. Here's an interesting story about King Faisal II from my grandmother. She was at a friends birthday party and Crown prince Faisal was invited as well (he was a teenager at the time), he couldn't find a chair and was too shy to sit on the couch next to some girls so found a small foot stool and sat on that! Such was his humility. Till this day my grandmother considers the 14th of July 1958 as the blackest day in Iraq's history which is riddled with black days..Many thanks Dr Felton!

@anorthedge4422

20 күн бұрын

Thanks for that story. I agree, I know a number of Iraqis who think the period of the monarchy was the time of the greatest peace and calm in Iraq's independent history.

@christopher5846

19 күн бұрын

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades. But by all means tell us more about your parties.

@egisantoso949

19 күн бұрын

@@christopher5846#1 dictatorship too. 😮

@islammokhtar2926

19 күн бұрын

@@egisantoso949 that's better than a fake democratic front where people choose the face of it and the real administration is done by a deep state, where physical oppression was replaced by sensationally overwhelming cultures. Don't kid yourself it's all a semantics game.

@NazTheGreat

19 күн бұрын

So is the West @@egisantoso949

When you said succeeded by a child, my brain automatically replied, “Well that’s going to end well.”

@simonandfaerk

24 күн бұрын

*Game of Thrones theme starts playing*

@nadiahapsari3359

24 күн бұрын

*Puyi flashbacks*

@AryanKumar-fz2dm

23 күн бұрын

It did not always end in trouble. At times, child kings and queens grew up to become good leaders.

@christopher5846

21 күн бұрын

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

@votewaldo9876

20 күн бұрын

Now Iraq is a colony of Iran

My granddad was a diplomat in Baghdad in the 1950s. My dad and his brother were out riding their bikes in Baghdad on 14 July 1958, and they saw the Kings body being dragged through the streets along with the Prime Minister’s too.

@BlackJesus8463

17 күн бұрын

Thats wild.

@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

5 күн бұрын

Which nation

@Jaderabbit9

4 күн бұрын

Irabia😂​@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

I know your specialty is WW2 but I love when you cover lesser known episodes in history like this.

When the Ottoman empire was carved up and Iraq created containing Sunni Shia and Kurds there was no way that country would be peaceful. It didn't matter who was in power, the other factions would hate it. It's no surprise that there was coup, counter-coup, and counter-counter-coup, where only force could keep control.

@thatlittlevoice6354

24 күн бұрын

It's almost as if differing cultures being forced upon each other is a bad thing.

@brt1996

24 күн бұрын

Well, it was comparatively more peaceful before the Ottoman empire was carved up

@StygiaN-WeB

24 күн бұрын

@@brt1996 more peaceful !.. you are not only a ignorant but a fool as well.. in the past two decades, over a million were killed. just in iraq & continuing.

@-.Steven

24 күн бұрын

​@@thatlittlevoice6354 That seems to be the british / globalist modis operandi.

@tekinfomedi

24 күн бұрын

@@brt1996 Perhaps not a coincidence that Iraq back then was ruled by an absolutist monarchy with a militarist provincial administration. At the same time, administration was also done through local tribal leaders. It was sometimes argued that this gave various communities a sense of security that they would not be marginalized by other communities around them. Post-1918 Western-inspired administration tend to bypass this tribal layer. The Baath system apparently tried to reinstate some form of tribalism but was not able to truly manage the Kurds and the Arab Shias.

5:27 Tintin creator Hergé used this picture of Faisal II as the inspiration for the character of Abdullah in the Tintin books

@AryanKumar-fz2dm

23 күн бұрын

That's interesting.

You should talk about the Nepalese Royal Massacre that lead to the downfall of the kingdom of Nepal

@waverunner7063

14 күн бұрын

The one from 2001? That's a *crazy* story.

Another segment of history I've heard little about. Thanks Professor Felton 👍

Of all the videos you have made (& I have watched ALL of them), this is the one that is the most meaningful to me, as it explains the reason why my father & grandparents left Iraq in the1950's- early 60's.This was something I wasn't able to find out from my father as he died when I was too young to understand. THANK YOU!

I went to Harrow School and left 13 years ago. I was in the same house that Faisal was in called Moretons. His picture hung on the wall next to a notice board and we would take it with us to inter-house sports matches as a talisman. Such a sad story, thank you for sharing.

I am Kurdish from Iraq and a subscriber of this great channel. We have a saying about the nature's of the Iraqi people and thir mob mentality and their conditioning to be ruled with an iron fist. The story of the graphic killing of the king reminds me of some of the stories of Fitna that led to the death of other historic figures during the middle ages and earlier in Iraq. Thank you for making this video. It is refreshing to hear the narration of this story from a foreigner.

@omerjameel3524

24 күн бұрын

U mean imam Hussein (ra) betrayed by Shias in Kufa and killed by ummayids Sunnis

@barryirlandi4217

24 күн бұрын

اللهم صل وسلم على نبينا محمد

@mayanktripathi8726

23 күн бұрын

mob mentality is the foundation of Islam...muslim mobs have killed many muslims as well as non muslims in the name of jihad

@geraldfordman7474

23 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@Peace_Guard

23 күн бұрын

As a Pole, I guess it's much easier to be like this when you have a divide and conquer strategy forced upon you by the Western powers and you live in a ethnically and religiously divided society with constant influence of foreign imperialism wanting your resources. Then each ethnic and religion group wants it's share of power and also everyone views the others as foreign powers' collaborators while themselves not.

I very much appreciate this thorough presentation. Thank you, Dr. Felton.

This history corroborates with the stories told to me by an employee who worked for me at a Holiday Inn in 1978. His last name was Feisal too, though he never claimed to be of any royal family, and he was a fantastically talented, speaking 3 languages, and having a excellent knowledge of economics. Thanks again Dr. Felton.

@LavrentiiCS

18 күн бұрын

Faisal was the King's name - his family clan name was Hashemite.

Excellent video. This is why I subscribed. The WW2 stuff is good, but it's great when you go beyond that and into other histories, it's appreciated. Now I know more about Iraq history. Thanks Dr, Felton.

Ironically enough, with all of the instability and warring going on in that part of the world, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is one of the few that has maintained any sort of real, noticeable stability.

@christopher5846

21 күн бұрын

It's also a vassal reliant on foreign aid and ironically was reliant on the Iraqi republic for Its economy.

@Betterifitsfree

20 күн бұрын

Why do you think it has been that way?

@lacameyangarsenal8157

18 күн бұрын

​@@Betterifitsfreebecause it's a monarchy

@Thaerabuhala1985

18 күн бұрын

السبب الوحيد في استقرار الأردن هو بسبب عدد اللاجئين الفلسطينيين فيها لذلك كل الدول التي تدعم إسرائيل تحميها كي لا يعود أهل فلسطين لبلادهم ... فالهدف الرئيسي هو حماية إسرائيل وليس الأردن انا من الأردن

@daphuc502

16 күн бұрын

Israel is the only reason why Jordan still survive as a country and Palestine still survive as an idea.

Regretting that i havent come across this channel for so long. Nicely presented.

My grandad served Baghdad in ww1 after he survived Gallipoli.

Excellent work Mark! The photos of Princess Hiyam are in fact Princess Badia - frequently mixed up such as on Wikipedia. Badia escaped the massacre because she was married and lived in her own property. She lived to 100 yrs but in exile. Her son Sharif Ali bin Hussein was a tireless advocate for a constitutional monarchy. Princess Hiyam lived into her sixties in Jordan. She related her first hand witness of the massacre to Tamara Daghistani putting to rest the false propaganda that the king was wounded and was being taken to hospital.

Thank you for the content Dr. Felton

4:16 King Faisal died at the age of 48. But he looks like a senior citizen already.

@AryanKumar-fz2dm

23 күн бұрын

By the way, he does appear in Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

@Sorayako62

22 күн бұрын

People in general, in those days, tended to look older

@AryanKumar-fz2dm

22 күн бұрын

@Sorayako62 True, especially that things we consider to be simple today, were quite harder earlier.

I'm a Veteran of the first Gulf war (Desert Storm). Another great video Dr. Mark! Many thanks for posting!

@CannibaLouiST

24 күн бұрын

@@Browne7100 by being a 1st gulf war veteran hwat else??

@JJ-tp7qq

24 күн бұрын

@@Browne7100 You need to pull your panties out of your butt crack and chill!

@KaasIsLekker

24 күн бұрын

You're not a veteran merely a non tried war criminal part of a country whose foreign policy of dealing with Iraq was worse than the morgenthau plan.

@chicorodriguez3964

24 күн бұрын

I remember watching you guys on the TV as a kid and thinking man them guys are awesome thank you for your service brother

@chrismanteris9093

24 күн бұрын

@@KaasIsLekkerthe main war criminals were bush and Cheney and their masters. The foot soldiers were mainly following orders

Bender from Futurama said it best in "A Pharaoh to Remember" "The cruelty of the old Pharaoh is a thing of the past, let a whole new wave of cruelty wash over this lazy land!"

Incredible historical account with valuable film and photographic presentation. Thank you so much for this effort. History as it was.

@christopher5846

21 күн бұрын

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

My final tour was in Iraq in 2004. What a waste of lives, money, and time. Never again.

@Monkey-ud8bw

24 күн бұрын

I know what you mean, it was an absolute shit show. The politicians messed up and the British Army paid the price.

@chicorodriguez3964

24 күн бұрын

I'm sorry you had to go through that brother but for what it's worth thank you for your service my friend

@fload46d

24 күн бұрын

We veterans of Vietnam feel the same way.

@rubberduckindustries6665

24 күн бұрын

@@chicorodriguez3964 Don't be sorry for me, be sorry for what we did to those people. By the way the EXACT SAME PEOPLE are trying to start another war with everything they have in Ukraine. Fuck that.

@at1970

24 күн бұрын

Were it so

Just when you think you not know nothing, Dr. Felton comes along...Thank you so much! I can't get enough of this "why in the world haven't I heard..."

Brilliant! Very in-depth and illuminating. Fantastic photos and videos, your team does a great job finding them, many thanks to the team!

So grateful for you. The intensity and detail of your scholarship combined with your narration and film really brings history to life. Many thanks!

I remember when I was about 12 years old seeing in a magazine the stripped body hanging missing hands and feet. After the many decades that region is still a brutal mess. I suspect that will never change.

@michaelhowell2326

24 күн бұрын

Decades? I'm not sure they ever graduated from a brutal hellscape. I haven't any faith things will change anytime soon, either.

@Redtomato7

23 күн бұрын

@@scratchsescape1978 did you also see the headless babies, malnourished women and children, limbless elderly? Hungry and destitute innocents put to the end of a JDAM so Tony Blair and the rest of the righteous Christian world could get cheaper gas ? I suspect that will never change either

@user-vi4vm5hb5h

23 күн бұрын

I would even say it never recovered from the Mongol massacre of Baghdad.

@tkling5909

22 күн бұрын

@@user-vi4vm5hb5h Don't be ridiculous, Ottoman rule was alright.

@NubaNarmer

21 күн бұрын

@@tkling5909 yes, except for all the impaling of course.

Dr. Felton, thank you for yet another most enlightening video. I knew a little about the 1958 coup, but I sure learned a lot after watching this. Keep up the good work!

I was gladly surprised that the Greek monarchy was brought up as an example of installed monarchies. After Otto, the next candidate for succeeding him was, as a fun fact, Prince Alfred, the son of Queen Victoria! Eventually Prince Vilhelm, who was the son of King Christian IX, eventually got into the throne, and became George I. He had a pretty long reign, almost 50 years.

@tekinfomedi

24 күн бұрын

Perhaps the not-so-Greek Greek monarchy was that Greeks were prepared to go along with this monarchy so long it sort of integrated into Greece. Unfortunately for the Hashemites, the culture in Iraq was different. Regarding political acceptance in Iraq and the wider region, it seemed to be based on at least 2 principles 1)Recognized right of conquest 2)Being part of a recognized local community The Hashemites had neither. 🙄🙄

@Pan472

24 күн бұрын

​@@tekinfomediWell, one integral part of the monarchy surviving that long, for 150 years almost, is the fact that Greeks expected the revival of the Byzantine Empire. Which was on its own, an absolute monarchy with theocratic elements, which survived 1100 years. It was a continuation of Rome but in almost all aspects it was a Greek state in all essence. That's why it was tolerated, because monarchies fit as a political system in Greece, plus with the expectation that Byzantium would somehow be revived.

@carlabroderick5508

22 күн бұрын

@@Pan472 I know it will never come to pass, but a Christian cannot help but fantasize about the return of Byzantium. The Hagia was once dedicated to Sophia, the Holy Spirit. Erdogan has made it a functioning mosque. Fall of Constantinople was largely the fault of Roman Christianity, which could not prevent the sacking of Constantinople by mercenaries in the fourth crusade.

Thank you, Mark for the excellent content. I always am excited to see something new pop up into the feed. While all the extreme deep diving into the Nazis is interesting, there’s so much else of potential interest out there and here is a great departure from the norm.

@douglasb5046

20 күн бұрын

Hear hear

Your WW2 content is fantastic, but if you did more current 20th century history, that would be amazing!

@yolandabrinkman2653

24 күн бұрын

Try Professor Vernon Bogdanor for post WWII historic podcasts. I found them fascinating

The problem with getting rid of a monarchy is that you usually end up with something much, much worse.

@TioDeive

23 күн бұрын

Even here in Brazil was like that, not comparable to Iraq and this quite sad situation of their former King, but if you look to our politicians after the coup that ousted the Emperor...

@seanhallett7156

23 күн бұрын

‘Murica

@chuckselvage3157

23 күн бұрын

U can't educate statues

@tateflorell2751

22 күн бұрын

Ousting monarchies usually ends up worse. If the monarchy has any hope in self preservation, then they slowly give up privileges while the country develops a democratic voice or another way of governance. Really us in the US have a lot to thank the Brits for. They pretty much had a 500 year transition period from Magna Carta to when the Hanoverian dynasty took the crown. At that point, the King was almost in the same role as we know the royal family today. So going from absolute monarchy to a 21st century style democracy is absolutely insane to think it will go smoothly.

@caniconcananas7687

22 күн бұрын

Yes, something much, much worse, like Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Finland, Ireland, Iceland. All horrible regimes, worse than any monarchy. That's the reason for all of the countries beyond the Iron Curtain, once free from the Soviet regime, chose not to be monarchies. That's the reason for several countries in the British Commonwealth having substituted queen Elisabeth with a republican regime. That was the reason to expel the kings of Athens, Rome and many other ancient city-states 2,500 years ago. Because the RES PUBLIC, the collective interest of the people is something the people have to mind, to care, to reflect upon... A horrible thing, I suppose, His Majesty.

You present the complexities of the region very well. Thank you.

When I was deployed to Iraq, I got to go to a few palaces, the private freshwater lake stocked with fish, the private zoo, and a few other places Sadaam had. I still remember it all as if it was yesterday, very underdeveloped country.

@waverunner7063

14 күн бұрын

What year was this? I was under the impression the country was *relatively* developed by regional standards.

@chuckr5929

14 күн бұрын

@@waverunner7063 By underdeveloped meaning no trash service, rough roads, etc. This was in 2007 and again 2010, the cities were developed but the outer towns and villages not so much. I convoyed all over that country, so I got to see firsthand different areas.

@yelenashishkina8804

14 күн бұрын

@@chuckr5929 "the cities were developed but the outer towns and villages not so much." Just like USA today. How many homeless sods are on a streets of VERY developed USA?

@chuckr5929

14 күн бұрын

Wasn’t going the homeless way, but if you insist there are homeless and drug abuse in many nations developed or not. I am not disrespecting any Iraqi or Muslim people. Just stating what I saw.

@yelenashishkina8804

14 күн бұрын

Was it not thanks to you and your kind Iraq had no chance to develop past what they did managed. Even though Saddam's personality is ambiguous, BUT the country was better off then before or after him.

A very thorough and fact filled video from an area of history I knew little about, thank you for the post

"Corpse horribly defiled" seems to be a repetitive pattern in that part of the map.

@TheChiefEng

24 күн бұрын

Primitives will always be primitives.

@Yoshimitsu696

24 күн бұрын

Casual racism?

@DaneOrschlovsky

24 күн бұрын

@@Yoshimitsu696 history has a way of repeating.

@omerjameel3524

24 күн бұрын

@@TheChiefEngwhen this part of the world had writing ur ancestors were probably still a hunter gatherer society but yeah they primitive right 😂

@barryirlandi4217

24 күн бұрын

Especially when western armies and their proxies are on the march

During WWII, my father-in-law, David T. Kenneth, was assigned to the US Secretary of State and was the flight engineer on the Secretary's aircraft. Where ever Roosevelt was, the Secretary was with him and where ever the Secretary was David Kenneth was there. He met the young Faisal II while in Egypt and taught him a bit about baseball. He never spoke much about the young king but in his diary there was mention of this and a few color slides of them together. After his death in 1999 we donated all of his documents and memorabilia to the Museum of the USAF in Dayton, OH. They are filed under "Kenneth Collection"

Another excellent production ! Thank you for your amazing work dr. Felton.

Great documentary as usual mark, I can remember most of this going on from when I was a child. However, your attention to detail makes it all make sense, I always enjoyed general history at school, but if you had been a teacher, it would have been a little more enjoyable. I've learnt so much detail from your videos that I didn't know!

Thank you for this. The last partner of my granny (and to me my only grandfather) was a political advisor to the Feisal dynasty (as well as a spy to HM) from the beginning until 1957 when he had to flee to Guernsey. He had fought with Lawrence in what was then known as the Great War. Edward Alec Kinch, OBE.

Very great documentary details, as always like your other vides, well done mark .. by the way Capt Abdul Sattar Al Aboosi was my grandfather’s brother, and all what you mentioned in the video is very true .. also if you like to add this in future videos Sattar Al Aboosi later took out his own life and committed sui-cide in the early 70s, and prime minster Nori Saed was caught wearing a women’s cover called (Abaya ) trying to escape and was savagely and brutal Ki lled by the angry people at that time as was the fate of the crown prince .. Cheers 👍🏼

I participated in Desert Storm in 90 and 91. Not a big fan of the monarchy but the atrocities committed against it started a slippery slope of violence. I remember my Ohio Art globe had the United Arab Republic on it and I long wondered what it was.

@jonthinks6238

24 күн бұрын

TY for your service.

@DSS-jj2cw

24 күн бұрын

@@jonthinks6238 You can thank me by supporting politicians that help veterans

@jonthinks6238

24 күн бұрын

@@DSS-jj2cw exactly

@RonSimiyu

22 күн бұрын

How weren't u a big fan of the monarchy yet you weren't educated enough to know what the United Arab Republic was?

@DSS-jj2cw

21 күн бұрын

@@RonSimiyu I was eight years old then

I always learn something new from a Felton video! Cheers, Mark!

Sir, this is one of your most informative and entertaining episodes. Thank You!

Fantastic production Mark. Learned so much. Thank you.

Great video as always. A little surprised you didn't mention Gertrude Bell; she would be worth her own video.

It’s a Good Friday when Dr Felton drops a video!

Thanks for this rendition Mark..

Phenomenal! Please more videos that focus on the history of the Middle East! Truly a category that many fear to tread through, Fantastic Work!

Thank you for making this vid interesting. Learned a lot.

I’m a British Army Reservist, several of the older lads in my regiment served in Iraq and picked up a few of Saddam’s belongings. After the fall of Baghdad in the 2003 invasion, a warrant officer friend of mine obtained Hussein’s rank slide from his palace, bearing his rank as an honorary Staff Muhib, akin to that of a naval admiral but used in his role as head of the army. Having just retired, he intends to keep hold of the rank slide and has no interest in selling it. Although he might take it to the antique roadshow. Another friend, then a young private took a container of instant coffee, which he claimed was the best ever of its kind. A product that still can’t be matched by any instant coffee in a UK supermarket. The British soldiers stationed at the palace took a few souvenirs with many making their way back to Blighty without arising suspicion from the RMPs.

@KaasIsLekker

24 күн бұрын

So you illegally trespass in someone's home with no regard to the law of the country. Oust a representative of a country and then dare to steal his stuff? Aside from the thousands of rapes and tortures the coalition forces have unleashed on the native population.

@martinswiney2192

24 күн бұрын

A friend of mine brought back a 50 BMG AP bullet that he had fired into an Iraqi BMP. It has the nose torn open exposing the steel core but somehow held onto its copper jacket. I still have it. Years later after much complaining by his wife about the artillery shell he was using as a door stop he gave it to me also. He had found it in the desert while still in Saudi Arabia. He tried to tell her it was an inert practice shell but she could not be convinced. I finally identified it as a German 88 practice round. I assume from WW2 era. It is solid steel and the band toward the rear has rifling marks where it was fired and a swirling skid mark on its nose where it impacted the sand. Now it’s my door stop.

@michaelhowell2326

24 күн бұрын

I was in US Army back then and I've, uh, I've heard stories of all kinds of cool stuff being sent home in ammo storage, gun tubes and vehicle tires. I can't confirm it but I've also heard of cash being brought back in canteens and sewn into clothes.

@dscrappylocogolani9555

24 күн бұрын

No regulations against looting or is it encouraged ... I mean given your history and all 😊

@user-jw4yf2dm4m

24 күн бұрын

I heard of U.S. Servicemen getting captured Dragunov sharpshooters rifles in - I won't guess how , but he was sorry to hear later that I had an interest in them.

Absolutely fascinating! Thankyou for that!

Thank you for your research Mark, its incredibly insighful and as a history student, hearing stories like makes me remember why I chose to do a history degree in the first place!

great presentation Mark, thank you.

we have a saying in Iraq where it is said a nation who killed a Child king and the grandson of the prophet and defile their bodies in two different timelines unjustly will not see a day of happiness in their life and looking back on Iraq's situation one can only say how true this is

@Basilreda

24 күн бұрын

Keep spewing nonsense

@alphasylpheed3861

18 күн бұрын

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades

@MohammadAli-sq1lj

18 күн бұрын

@@alphasylpheed3861 these republics have made today's Iraq where in every catagory iraq is in the buttom next to Somalia and Afghanistan

@yelenashishkina8804

14 күн бұрын

@@MohammadAli-sq1lj " iraq is in the buttom next to Somalia and Afghanistan" All thanks to weak monarch and his greedy relatives.

@christopher5846

12 күн бұрын

​@@MohammadAli-sq1lj The 2003 invasion restored all the monarchist policies. For example foreign monopolies like BP were banned from Iraq in 1958 and were only restored in 2003. You're literally crying about the monarchy because it is identical to the post 2003 regime.

Thank you, Sir Felton for another great history lesson. Cheers!

Note to would-be dictators, it doesn't end well and it always ends.

@ssnabell

24 күн бұрын

The winners have figured you got to hide behind puppets

@lauramounir3660

24 күн бұрын

True statement.

@markgarrett3647

24 күн бұрын

The District of Criminals won't end well.

@Long_Live_Asir

24 күн бұрын

Tell that to Bashar Al-Assad of Syria. He is still in power thanks to the public Russo-Iranian protection and the secret American-Israeli protection because of his secret assurance about the security and protection of Israel from any direct threat. That’s why Assad wouldn’t dare to threat Israel directly during the current war against Hamas because he wants to stay on power. Some dictators get away with it unfortunately!

@christopher5846

21 күн бұрын

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

Outstanding, informative video.

Excellent narration and analysis, as ever. Plus ca change...

Yaaaaaas Dr. Mark. Any political situations. You're the best to tell it

Fascinating! I had no idea of this history. Thank you.

Wow, so informative with great images spanning early 20th century forward.

Excellent Video!

The mark of any phenomenal historian is that they can discuss any topic with great knowledge. Dr. Felton continues to exemplify this.

@arostwocents

20 күн бұрын

You know this is researched and edited and he's reading the script? He's not just talking off the cuff 😂

Thank you for sharing!

Fascinating documentary Dr Felton.- i wasn't aware of the full extent of incredibly turbulent history of Iraq before, but you've managed to package it in your inimitable way!. ;)

It's a very interesting summary of the events that lead to the present state of affairs in Iraq. It would be interesting if you made a video on the Suez crisis, which had great consequences in reshaping geopolitics. It shouldn't be forgotten that it happened in parallel to the Hungarian uprising, and that put Eisenhower in a position in which he couldn't play double-standards. The crisis ended the supremacy of Britain and France as international powers, as they were replaced by the US.

@MarkFeltonProductions

24 күн бұрын

I made a video about the Paras during the Suez Crisis.

@MrTappug

24 күн бұрын

I think Eisenhower should have stood behind Britain and France. In my opinion he could have supported Britain and France knowing that the Suez Canal had been owned by Britain and France for many years unlike Hungary that the Soviets decided to take in 1945 when they were supposed to liberate Eastern Europe.

@jjeherrera

24 күн бұрын

@@MrTappug I agree. He eventually regretted supporting Nasser… Dearly.

@Mk-qb2ny

24 күн бұрын

Eisenhower's softness, first towards the Soviets at the end of WWII and later in the Middle east caused exactly what happens when you're soft in world affairs.

@MrTappug

24 күн бұрын

@@Mk-qb2ny I think Eisenhower was one of America’s worst presidents by hurting America and the free world by his softness and bad decisions. I think of him at Suez, dien Bien Phu, Sputnik, sitting down Khrushchev in America without preconditions in 1959, the U2 flight and the conference on decolonization at the UN where Khrushchev said he would bury the west. Not to mention his administration planning the bay of pigs. I think Eisenhower was a good general during WW2, but he should have never been president. I think he was also lousy in how treated Nixon who was very loyal to him.

Saving the distance, this reminds me of the brutality of the French revolutionaries of 1789 towards the monarchy they dethroned. Violence can NEVER be the solution to a country's problems

Thank you for this post.

My grandad was deployed at the Suez crisis... Didn't see him in the short clips here though. 😄 Thanks for all the great videos Mark! I'm the guy who spotted you in the city a year or two ago next to the Cosy Club- hope you didn't mind me shouting 'Mark!' at you, haha, was just surprised and pleased to see you!

Lovely with a new topic!

Very shameful… This part of the world (be it Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and more) became underdeveloped by removing the monarchs.

@minhthunguyendang9900

22 күн бұрын

@@jurajm7212 The evidence is heart-rending for the peoples.

A well presented and fascinating video on what I’m sure, most would agree, a deeply troubling subject.

a great very interesting video Mr.Felton.have a good one.

thank you, Mark....( a complete, thorough, gory and typically British narrative that's told many of us more then we ever wanted to know about the history of Iraq )

Fantastic history lesson. I love you channel. I'm a big big history buff. I just learned something about the chain of command in Iraq. Thank you so much.🇺🇸☮️✌️

@christopher5846

21 күн бұрын

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

I have often wondered about this, thank you

Thank you for another great presentation!

Captain Abdul Sattar Sabaa Al-Ibousi the man who shot the king and his family would later commit suicide due to guilt for what he did to the royals

That place has a long and bloody history.

@FYMASMD

24 күн бұрын

You mean the whole of human civilization? Typical behavior by the worst animal on this planet.

@raymondtonns2521

24 күн бұрын

most of human history is written in blood

@ALIKN1-1

24 күн бұрын

@@raymondtonns2521 but Iraq is land of the blood

@joshuabessire9169

24 күн бұрын

Sargon of Akkad: "What this place needs is to be united." Mesopotamias: "How about we don't." Forgieners and Dictators ever since: "No, no, he's got a point."

@TheOwneroftheIC

24 күн бұрын

@@joshuabessire9169 the curse of Ashurbanipal.

i love you Dr Felton thank you so much for inlighting us again

Thank you for new direction!

Britian to Iraq: "Congratulations, we're granting you independence* *Terms and conditions may apply, independence not available in some areas

Unfortunately, some of the information about the king's death is incorrect, my father was a second lieutenant in the forces that besieged the palace, he told us that the king came out at the forefront of everyone, carrying the Qur’an on his head, and when he reached halfway between the palace door and the forces surrounding the place, a shooting occurred from the balcony overlooking the garden, it was by Prince Abdul Ilah, who knew with certainty that he would be executed if he surrendered himself, then Captain Al-Aboussi gave the order to open fire after he started shooting, then fire was opened from light weapons and heavy machine guns from everyone towards the balcony, the king and those with him, who were walking under the balcony, were heading towards the soldiers. It only took a few seconds the king had been seriously injured in the chest, and most of the women died, including his grandmother the wife of King Faisal I, Princess Badia was not in the palace with the women, prince Abdul Ilah was killed on the balcony, they waited for orders, they ordered them to transport the wounded and dead to the hospital, they were transported with two armored vehicles, meanwhile thousands of people had taken to the streets after hearing the announcement of the revolution to celebrate, the armored vehicles were stopped by the crowds in order to climb on them, embrace the soldiers and celebrate with them, the soldiers asked the crowd to clear the way because they were carrying the king and the royal family, some of whom were wounded, to the hospital, the crowd's anger was not controlled, and only the body of Prince Abdul Ilah was pulled from the vehicles. Because he was the only person who was hated and whom people blamed for everything, it took a long time to reach the hospital, and they were stopped several times, by the time they arrived, everyone was dead, the king and his family bodies were in the hospital morgue until the order came on the second day to bury them in the hospital’s back garden until things were settled. Their bodies remained in the hospital garden until 1984, when King Hussein of Jordan asked Saddam Hussein to transfer their bodies to the reconstructed royal cemetery. The statue of King Faisal I, also was returned to central Baghdad after that.

@Rom3_29

24 күн бұрын

Thank you

@mplate1792

24 күн бұрын

@jimaaalaa6786, did you check your father's facts the way Dr. Felton verifies his?

@MarkFeltonProductions

24 күн бұрын

This is a version of events I have never heard, and I received much information directly from Iraqi royal sources.

@stefanodadamo6809

24 күн бұрын

​@@MarkFeltonProductionsthe version that circulated in the West was of course the one that fit more with the depiction of the revolutionaries as monsters, savages and, in the way they killed the royals, slavish imitators of the Bolsheviks of forty years before (later history just illustrated how little they were "Communists") . However bloody were the hard cold facts on the ground, you can't escape a strong suspicion that "Orientalism", as defined by Edward Said, had its part in the Western narration. Plus, anti-communism and general racism against Arabs and Muslim fused into one.

@snapdragon6601

24 күн бұрын

​@@stefanodadamo6809It sounded like the description of events was mostly provided by the King's wife. Dr. Felton said she was Egyptian, so I don't think she was being racist against Arabs. Also it sounded like she was the only survivor from the group of people who were with the King that day and went out to meet the conspirators in the garden. Of course the people who did the shooting and killing that day wouldn't want it to sound like cold blooded murder. Also, a comparison between the violence during the Iraqi Coup of 1958 and that which took place in July 1918 would be a fair comparison to make. The Bolsheviks DID shoot Czar Nicholas II and the rest of the Romanov family to solidify their grip on power in the aftermath of their October revolution in which they overthrew the temporary government who itself had overthrown the Czar during the February revolution. Those events actually happened, they weren't just Western propaganda or lies to make the Bolsheviks look bad. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Romanov_family

Very informative. Thank you.

Love your videos and i heard you studied native American history as well my favourite utube channel keep the videos coming mark.

LOL " the black stuff that comes out of the ground "😂😂 I would have like to know this before I went to Iraq!

@Vongreimbf109

24 күн бұрын

I didnt know slavery started from underground 😮..i always thought they came by Slave ships across atlantic

@sarge4455

24 күн бұрын

Please we all knew

@jonthinks6238

24 күн бұрын

Beverly Hillbillies.

@markrobinowitz8473

14 күн бұрын

It was actually to control olive oil and hummus supplies. Not that other stuff.

Mesopotamia, also known as the "Land Between the Rivers," is renowned as the "Cradle of Civilization." It witnessed the rise of prominent civilizations, including Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria.

Thanks for all your research. Fascinating

This is a channel I search for; even though I am subscribed.

As a descendant of a jewish baghdadi family i can only be sorry that the terrible massacre of the jewish community known as the farhud in june 1941, inspired by the germans and the events in europe was not mentioned.

@wafflelite

24 күн бұрын

Was your family part of the Baghdadi Jewish community? My parents hometown of Kirkuk once had a prominent Jewish community as well until those events.

@waverunner7063

14 күн бұрын

They blamed the Jews for supporting the British efforts to reverse the coup against the king.

@yelenashishkina8804

14 күн бұрын

@@wafflelite why Jewish lived in Baghdad and not in Israel? It is strange for me: Most Jewish live outside of Israel. Why they don't want to live in their country?

@christopher5846

12 күн бұрын

@@----jiz7048 You're making stuff up with the last bit. It was the other way around and it was under the monarchy.

@Hwje1111

6 күн бұрын

@@christopher5846didn’t it get overthrown for a brief period?

Lesson from this: Be careful what you wish for.

An unappreciated part of history these days so thanks for this.