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We are coming, unafraid : the Jewish legions and the promised land in the First World War / Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keren, Michael, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Legion--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Legion.
- Jewish soldiers--Correspondence.
- Jewish soldiers.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish--Anecdotes.
- Military participation--Jewish.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- History.
- Personal correspondence.
- Personal narratives.
- Personal narratives -- Jewish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book tells the little-known stories of Jewish soldiers who served in the Jewish Legions during World War I. Three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, the book follows their journey at sea through unrestricted submarine warfare; by trains and trucks through Europe, Egypt, and Palestine; and their battlefield experiences. The authors show how these Yiddish-speaking young men forged a new kind of soldi
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; 2; Leaving Home; 3; In Distant Lands; 4; To the Front; 5; On Bravery; 6; Hope and Disenchantment; 7; The Chaplain; 8; An Aristocrat of Sorts; 9; Memory and Identity; 10; A Soldier Left Behind; 11; Existential Zionism; Notes; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8182-741-0
- 979-82-16-30542-2
- 1-282-92253-X
- 9786612922534
- 1-4422-0550-4
- OCLC:
- 700447107
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