Palestine and World War I de Haim Goren

Palestine and World War I: Grand Strategy, Military Tactics and Culture in War

Haim Goren

Eran Dolev

Yigal Sheffy

The Palestine Campaign has become one of the most glorified military campaigns of the twentieth century. The last campaign fought by the Ottoman Army, and thus the last act of the once-mighty Ottoman Empire, the Palestine Campaign saw the British Army under General Allenby conquer the Holy Land, forcing the Turkish army back into Europe. Meanwhile the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement ensured the British and French would continue to influence the Middle East for the next 60 years. This front saw some of the most influential stories of the Great War, from T.E. Lawrence's Arab army in the desert, to General Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot in 1917. Palestine and World War I shows how the events of the Great War have left a lasting legacy in the Middle East.

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Eran Dolev is Associate Professor of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and former Surgeon-General of the Israeli Defence Forces. Sheffy Yigal is Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel, (the Program for Security Studies) and Haifa University (Department of Political Science, Program of National security and Department of History of the Middle East) Haim Goren is Associate Professor of History and Geography at Tel Hai University, Israel.

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Preface viiiList of Contributors xiv1. The Palestine Campaign within the Great War Jay WinterPart I A 'Multinational Campaign'2. Alsace-Lorraine Soldiers in the Palestine Campaign:Conformism and Specificities of a National Minoritywithin the German Military Mission in Turkey Jean-Noel Grandhomme3. Hopes and Jealousies: Rome's Ambitions in the MiddleEast and the Italian Contingent in Palestine, 1915 - 1920 Nir Arielli4. The Conquest of Beersheba, 1917, Revisited: The CrucialRole of German Air Squadron No. 301 Benjamin Z. KedarPart II Strategic-Political Aspects of the Campaign5. Loyalty, Indifference, Treason: The Ottoman - GermanExperience in Palestine during World War I Tilman Lu¨ dke6. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby: One of theGreat Captains of History? Matthew HughesPart III Military Aspects of the Campaign7. A Different Kind of Battle: Allenby's Anti-MalariaCampaign, Palestine, 1918 Eran Dolev, MD8. A Cavalry Victory? Cavalry in the historiographyof the Sinai-Palestine Campaign Jean Bou9. Mapping for the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917 Peter Collier10. Destabilizing the Enemy: The Raid on Nazareth,19 - 20 September 1918 Yigal SheffyPart IV Palestine during the Campaign11. A Diplomat in the Holy City: the Spanish Consul andWorld War I in Jerusalem Roberto Mazza12. The Situation in Jerusalem during World War I,According to the Memoirs of Wasif Jawharieh 228Mustafa Abassi13. The Haifa Community Committee DuringWorld War I: Laying the Foundations forMulti-ethnic Public Leadership in the City Anat Kidron14. The Jewish Colonization Association in theGalilee - The Day After Yair Seltenreichvi PALESTINE AND THE FIRSTWORLD WARPart V Cultural Aspects of the Campaign15. Hebrew Literature of World War I in Palestine Glenda Abramson16. 'On the rock-strewn hills I heard/The anger of guns':Siegfried Sassoon in Palestine Nancy RosenfeldIndex