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The British Army's devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
List of contents
List of Illustrations; 1. Framing the Arab Revolt; 2. The emergency state in mandate Palestine; 3. Rebels and revolt; 4. From insurgency to banditry; 5. The regiments arrive; 6. Screwing down the population; 7. Intelligence and collaboration; 8. Dirty wars and extra-judicial violence; Afterword: policy, violence, and the Arab revolt; Appendix A: order-of-battle; Appendix B: casualties; Appendix C: women and violence; Appendix D: sartorial wars; Appendix E: dramatis personae and the Arab Higher Committee; Appendix F: currency and wages; Appendix G: the escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Matthew Hughes writes fantasy, space opera, crime fiction, and historical novels. He hassold 24 novels to publishers large and small in the UK, US, and Canada, as well as 100 works ofshort fiction to professional markets. Matt has won the Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada and has been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, Philip K Dick, Endeavour (twice), AE van Vogt, and Derringer Awards. He was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association's Hall of Fame. His magnum opus, What the Wind Brings, is available through pulpliterature.com. Pulp Literature also published his short stories 'The Devil You Don't' and 'Fishface and the Leg' in Issue 13 and 'The Bicolour Spiral' in Issue 26. Find out more about Matt on Wikipedia at Matt_Hughes_(writer)
Summary
More than just a military history of Britain's suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, this is a dissection of how the British empire worked to supress dissent and how subject peoples resisted colonial rule.
