Palestine : the Ottoman campaigns of 1914-1918 / Edward J. Erickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erickson, Edward J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Palestine.

World War, 1914-1918.

Middle East--Palestine.

World War (1914-1918).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire, [England] : Pen and Sword Military, 2016.

Summary:

The campaigns fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine are often neglected in accounts of the Great War, yet they are fascinating from the point of view of military history and critically important because of their impact upon the modern Middle East. Edward Erickson's authoritative and absorbing account of the four-year struggle for control of Palestine between 1914 and 1918 of the battles fought for Suez, Sinai, Gaza, Jordan and Syria opens up this little-understood aspect of the global conflict and it does so in a strikingly original way, by covering the fighting from the Ottoman perspective. Using Turkish official histories and military archives, he recounts the entire course of the campaigns, from the initial attack by German-led Ottoman forces on Sinai and the Suez Canal, the struggle for Gaza and the outbreak of the Arab Revolt to the British offensives, the battle for Jerusalem, the Ottoman defeat at Megiddo and the rapid British advance which led to the capture of Damascus and Aleppo in 1918.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2016).

ISBN:

9781473880085

1473880084

9781473880078

1473880076