Download or read book World War I in the Middle East How the Allied Campaigns in the Sinai and Palestine Rebuked the Popular Definitions of World War I Era Warfare written by Brendan Gillespie and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2016 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, grade: A, The Ohio State University, language: English, abstract: World War I is most often explained in the context of how it was the terminal turning point in how warfare was waged, namely that World War I was when the weapons of industrial powers outpaced the type of head-on collision of massive numbers of men that had been the preemptive military strategy for millennia. This paper does not attempt to dispute this argument, instead it argues that while World War I was undoubtedly "a war that changed war," there was a campaign waged between major powers in World War I that can be deemed "traditional" in the sense that men and their actions decided the fate and outcome, versus the manufactured warfare fought elsewhere, especially the western front in Europe. This campaign was the war waged in the Middle East between the British and the Ottoman Turks over the contested territory of Palestine, which may well have been one of the last "traditional" campaigns fought on this Earth. By using primary sources from World War I and more contemporary material, this paper will compare how drastically different the Palestine campaign was compared to how people view World War I in popular memory. World War I often gets "squeezed" into an easy definition that can explain a truly "world" war. It is important for historians, students of history, and everyday world citizens however to understand that historical events, especially involving war, are often vastly more complicated and diverse than they are made out to be.

Download or read book The Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Most books and documentaries about the First World War focus on the carnage of the Western Front, where Germany faced off against France, the British Empire, and their allies in a grueling slugfest that wasted millions of lives. The shattered landscape of the trenches has become symbolic of the war as a whole, and it is this experience that everyone associates with World War I, but that front was not the only experience. There was the more mobile Eastern Front, as well as mountain warfare in the Alps and scattered fighting in Africa and the Far East. There was also the Middle Eastern Front, in both the Levant and Mesopotamia, which captured the imagination of the European public. There, the British and their allies fought the Ottoman Turkish Empire under harsh desert conditions hundreds of miles from home, struggling for possession of places most people only knew from the Bible and the Koran. The campaign to protect British Egypt from Turkish invasion was especially important to the Allied war effort. The Turks sought to cut the Suez Canal, a vital supply route connecting the Mediterranean with British colonies in East Africa and India and Britain's allies in Australia and New Zealand. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany quipped that the canal was the "jugular vein of the British Empire." Egypt at the outbreak of war was still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, though British troops had been there since 1882, and the British ruled in all but name, with an Egyptian khedive as the supposed head of state. When the Ottoman Empire entered the war in late October of 1914, the British were quick to make Egypt a protectorate. With the Ottomans declaring jihad, or "holy war," against the Allies and calling for all Muslims to rise up, the British quickly removed Khedive Abbas Il Helmi, who was pro-German, and replaced him with the more tractable Hussein Kamel. It wasn't long into the campaign before the men had to march in that heat, pushing the Turks out of the Sinai and continuing into Palestine. The Turks suffered greatly in their marches as they prepared to attack Egypt, and the British would soon learn to appreciate what their enemies had been through. Massey noted, "There was a time when six miles a day in marching order was considered the utmost limit for infantry in the eastern desert. One day, when travelling light, during the battle of Romani, I tramped twelve miles and could get nobody to believe me. At the end of it I chanced upon the East Lancashire troops at Canterbury Siding, and could not move for two hours. Yet I have been a walker and runner from my youth up. I was fresher after a London to Brighton walk [about 50 miles], untrained, than at the finish of that desert twelve miles. And I was not carrying a sixth of the weight of the foot-sloggers. The fatigue of marching with the sun overhead was no light trial." For the men of the Allied and Ottoman armies, the land was as fearsome of an enemy as the men opposing them. The Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I: The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Victory Over the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East examines the history of this crucial but often overlooked campaign. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the campaign like never before.

Download or read book Desert Anzacs written by Neil Dearberg and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 100 years, the astounding story of Anzac horsemen, cameleers, aviators, rough riders, medics, vets, light and armoured cars hasn’t been told. Until now. Championed by Australia’s Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel they overcame early feeble British political and military incompetence. Fast, open conflict, rather than septic trenches, suited their outback upbringing. Part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, they recovered the Holy Land after 730 years of Muslim control, even saving Lawrence of Arabia and his cause. Their stunning victory at the Battle of Beersheba was the last mass mounted charge of modern times. The ‘great ride’ offensive of the Desert Mounted Corps, with 30,000 horsemen, destroyed the Ottoman Empire and wreaked vengeance for Gallipoli. This is the first detailed account of the extraordinary military campaign that set the stage for today’s Middle East. Dearberg’s Anzac trilogy on World War I is now complete – Gallipoli, France, Palestine.

Download or read book Palestine and World War I written by Haim Goren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Gallipoli Campaign, Sinai and Palestine Campaign, Caucasus Campaign, Persian Campaign, Mesopotamian campaign, Palestine Railways, Egyptian Camel Transport Corps, Arab Revolt, South Arabia during World War I, Egyptian Labour Corps, List of commanders in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, McMahon letters, South Persia Rifles, Battle of Manzikert, Arab Bureau, Campaigns of the Arab Revolt, Caucasus Front.

Download or read book The Last Crusade written by Anthony Peter Charles Bruce and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthony Bruce has produced a military history of the campaign, drawing on a wide range of sources including the words of those who took part. He is also alive to its political aftermath, including the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Arabs' sense of abandonment following the Balfour Declaration. The implications of these are still with us today."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign 1914 1918 written by Yigal Sheffy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the end of the First World War, General Sir George Macdonagh, wartime director of British Military Intelligence, revealed that Lord Allenby's victory in Palestine had never been in doubt because of the success of his intelligence service. Seventy-five years later this book explains Macdonagh's statement. Sheffy also adopts a novel approach to traditional heroes of the campaign such as T E Lawrence.

Download or read book With the British Army in the Holy Land written by H. O. Lock and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sinai and Palestine Campaigns took place in the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I. A series of battles were fought between British Empire, German Empire and Ottoman Empire forces from 26 January 1915 to 31 October 1918, when the Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Entente Powers. This book is an account of the Palestine campaign, "illustrated from the experiences of one who was present" by Major H. O. Lock of the Dorsetshire Regiment and was first published in 1919.

Download or read book Photographic album compiled by a German officer during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I 1918 written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An album compiled by a German officer of the 146th Infantry Regiment during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Photographs range in size from 6 x 9 cm to 13 x 18 cm and show views of Jerusalem, Nablus, Biddya, Mesudye, Sebastia, Syria, the Jordan River and Istanbul. Includes photographs taken during the return voyage to Germany via Gibraltar [11 views]. Images largely feature the local people, buildings, antiquities, landscapes and soldiers.

Download or read book Palestine and World War I written by Eran Dolev and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book With Our Army In Palestine written by Antony Bluett and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Our Army in Palestine" is a memoir and firsthand account written by Antony Bluett, an officer who served in the British Army during World War I. The book details Bluett's experiences as a soldier in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of 1916-1918. Published in 1921, Bluett's narrative takes readers on a compelling journey through the challenging and diverse landscapes of the Middle East during the war. The focus is on the military operations conducted by the British forces against the Ottoman Empire in the Sinai Peninsula, Palestine, and beyond. Key aspects covered in the book include: Military Campaigns: Bluett provides a detailed account of the military campaigns, describing the challenges faced by the British forces in the harsh desert environment. The narrative encompasses battles, strategies, and the overall progress of the campaign. Life in the Field: The author offers insights into the daily life of a soldier in the EEF, discussing the hardships, camaraderie, and the dynamics of military life during the campaign. Geopolitical Context: Bluett places the military actions within the broader geopolitical context of World War I, explaining the significance of the British campaign in the Middle East and its connections to the overall war effort. Cultural and Historical Observations: Beyond the military aspects, Bluett provides observations on the local cultures, landscapes, and historical landmarks of the region, adding depth to the narrative. Personal Reflections: The memoir incorporates personal reflections and emotions, allowing readers to connect with Bluett's experiences on a more intimate level. "With Our Army in Palestine" serves as both a historical document and a personal testament to the challenges faced by soldiers during a crucial period in the Middle East. The book contributes to the understanding of the World War I campaigns in the region and provides valuable perspectives on the human experiences amid the complexities of war.

Download or read book Hell in the Holy Land written by David R. Woodward and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling WWI history reveals the harsh realities of the British Army’s Middle East campaign through the firsthand accounts of soldiers. The massive flow of British troops and equipment to Egypt made that country host to the largest British military base outside of Britain and France. Though many soldiers found the atmosphere in Cairo exotic, the desert countryside made operations extremely difficult. The intense heat frequently sickened soldiers, and unruly camels were the only practical means of transport across the soft sands of the Sinai. The constant shortage of potable water was a persistent problem for the troops. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of British soldiers who fought in Egypt and Palestine, David R. Woodward paints a vivid picture of the mayhem, terror, boredom, filth, and sacrifice they endured. The voices of these soldiers offer a forgotten perspective of the Great War, describing not only the physical and psychological toll of combat but the daily struggles of soldiers who were stationed in an unfamiliar environment that often proved just as antagonistic as the enemy.

Download or read book How Jerusalem Was Won written by W. T. Massey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918.Allenby was arguably one of the most successful British commanders of the war, utilising strategies he developed from his experiences in the Boer War and on the Western Front towards his Palestinian Campaigns of 1917–18. His management of the Battle of Megiddo in particular, with its brilliant use of airplanes, infantry, and mobile cavalry, is considered by many to be a precursor to the Blitzkrieg tactics so widely employed by Germany during the Second World War.

Download or read book Strategy and Tactics of the Egypt and Palestine Campaign With Details of the 1917 18 Operations Illustrating the Principles of War written by A. Kearsey and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Palestine Campaigns written by Field-Marshal Earl Wavell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoughtful and well written account of the Palestinian campaigns, Field Marshal Wavell (at that time a Colonel) gives not only a very readable account of the actual campaigns themselves but also highlights the military maxims that gave success to the British Forces. Wavell himself was on the staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1917 and had a deep and firsthand knowledge of the operations and the theatre of war. As one of the most forward thinking leaders in the British Army of the time, Wavell’s conclusions on the future of war that he advanced in this book were quite prescient; the use of armoured vehicles and strategic mobility to mention but two. “The Palestine campaigns have been acclaimed as a triumph for cavalry and as the vindication of that arm in modern war. And quite certainly the skilful use of the mounted arm is the outstanding feature of the operations. But the true lesson is not so much the value of the horseman as the value and power of mobility, however achieved. “The campaigns are a classic illustration of this power, and are well worth careful study for this reason alone, since the chief aim of military thought at the present time must be to recapture the power of movement and manœuvre, which was lost in the principal operations of the late war in Western Europe.”—Extract from book

Download or read book Key to the Sinai written by George Walter Gawrych and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incomplete Victory General Allenby And Mission Command In Palestine 1917 1918 written by LCDR Geronimo Nuño and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palestine Campaign of the First World War exhibited a fighting style that brought with it various challenges in mission command. While General Allenby, commanding the Allied Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), gained several victories in the early stages of the campaign, he did not comprehensively defeat the Turkish forces in Palestine. He drove them away from their defensive line, but they escaped, avoided destruction, and retreated north to re-establish a defense and engage the EEF at later date. This thesis argues that General Allenby did not achieve the great successes at the battles of Beersheba, Gaza, Sheria, and the pursuit of Turkish forces that ended with Allenby’s capture of Jerusalem. Instead, Allenby had to learn how to succeed in Palestine to finally destroy the armies of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine at the battle of Megiddo in September 1918. The research in this study highlights the mission command challenges in Allenby’s early campaigns and how he learned to overcome them and adapt his tactics to achieve complete victory at the battle of Megiddo. This thesis will use the tenets of mission command, consisting preparation, combined arms, prioritization of resources, and communication, to examine General Allenby’s Palestine campaign. Mission command, both a function of war and a philosophy of leadership comprises one of the key facets of military thought that leaders must consider in order to achieve complete victory.