Camp and Combat on the Sinai and Palestine Front - The Experience of the British Empire Soldier, 1916-18

"This important book restores the war in the Middle East to our attention and emphasises that the struggle against the Ottomans posed as many challenges and hardships for the men who fought it as did the better-known experiences at Gallipoli and on the Western Front." - Professor Jeffrey Grey, UNSW, Australia Informationen zum Autor EDWARD WOODFIN Associate Professor of History at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, where he won the Kathryn Amelia Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching. He earned a PhD at Texas A&M University and he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Klappentext Dunes, sandstorms, freezing crags and searing heat; these are not the usual images of World War I. For many men from all over the British Empire, this was the experience of the Great War. Based on soldiers' accounts, this book reveals the hardships and complexity of British Empire soldiers' lives in this oft-forgotten but important campaign.Dunes, sandstorms, freezing crags and searing heat; these are not the usual images of World War I. For many men from all over the British Empire, this was the experience of the Great War. Based on soldiers' accounts, this book reveals the hardships and complexity of British Empire soldiers' lives in this oft-forgotten but important campaign. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Prologue The Rotten Wilderness: the Sinai Crossing the Line The Gaza Trenches Mountains of Mourning 'The Unholy Land': The Trenches of Samaria and Jordan Epilogue: The Long Journey Home Conclusion Appendix Bibliography

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Introduction Prologue The Rotten Wilderness: the Sinai Crossing the Line The Gaza Trenches Mountains of Mourning 'The Unholy Land': The Trenches of Samaria and Jordan Epilogue: The Long Journey Home Conclusion Appendix Bibliography

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"This important book restores the war in the Middle East to our attention and emphasises that the struggle against the Ottomans posed as many challenges and hardships for the men who fought it as did the better-known experiences at Gallipoli and on the Western Front."
- Professor Jeffrey Grey, UNSW, Australia

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• Authors: Woodfin, E Woodfin, E. Woodfin, Edward Woodfin, Edward C. Woodfin, WOODFIN EDWARD C
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2012
• EAN: 9780230303768
• ISBN: 978-0-230-30376-8
• No. of pages: 239
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, European History, world history, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, Second World War, Asian History, General and world history, imperialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of the Middle East, Middle East—History, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, bibliography;British Empire;empire