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

by E. Woodfin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349338375
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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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