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The recovery of Palestine, 1917 : Jerusalem for Christmas / by Stanley Weintraub.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weintraub, Stanley, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Palestine.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Jerusalem--History, Military--20th century.
- Jerusalem.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- By mid-1917, with the world war going badly on all fronts, and casualties burgeoning, Prime Minister David Lloyd George met with General Edmund Allenby, fresh from France. Lloyd George wanted "Jerusalem for Christmas" as a holiday "present" for the increasingly disillusioned British people. Its seizure would also eliminate the Ottomans, who had inflicted the dismaying disaster at the Dardanelles, as a factor in the war. As Allenby departed, the PM handed him George Adam Smith's Historical Geography of the Holy Land, remarking that it was a better guide to reaching Jerusalem than anything "in the pigeon holes of the War Office". Having been raised on the Bible, Allenby, as this narrative illustrates, did indeed exploit it. He would also have unanticipated expertise from an unknown and unmilitary officer, T. E. Lawrence, who turned his Arabian "sideshow" into campaigns distracting the Turks and their German military leadership. The desert war would be hard-fought, but, that December, after centuries in Muslim hands and with its sacred sites intact, Jerusalem fell.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- A Note on Names and Sources
- Preface
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Acknowledgments and Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-7959-2
- OCLC:
- 974947646
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