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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The Palestinian Campaign was one of the last "Colonial" campaigns indulged in by the British Army. One could say it was only loosely described as the defence of the Suez canal, yet it did exhaust the powers of the Ottoman empire in WWI. There were relatively set-piece battles, and the locale was relatively exotic, and thus good for the morale of the Allied public. ( ) 4732. Armageddon: 1918, by Cyril Falls (read 25 Jul 2010) This is a good book, but its subject did not interest me particularly. It tells of the fighting by the British against the Turks, aided by Germans, in September and October of 1918 in what is now Israel and Syria. The campaign included the last significant cavalry action. The British did very well, and even though the War was almost over and would be decided in France, no doubt the British felt it important to their empire to win in the campaign there in the Near East. Falls handles the events with a sure touch. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the British government realized that it had to keep the Suez Canal open at all costs because it was the primary sea route connecting Britain to its far-flung eastern colonies. The Suez bordered Egypt, a nominal Turkish province, and, when Turkey became involved in the war on Germany's side in 1915, Turkey attacked the canal. As a result the British declared war on Turkey and began an offensive against the Ottoman forces and their German advisers. The British, aided by various Arab groups, swept north through Palestine, Jordan, and Syria to Turkey's ultimate defeat in October 1918. In Armageddon, 1918, eminent military historian Cyril Falls discusses the background of the World War I Middle East conflict and relates the final, critical campaign through Palestine, along with its notable personalities, including T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, Kress von Kressenstein, and Edmund Allenby. Falls ends with a pertinent reflection on the subsequent history of the region, from the formation of Iraq in 1920 through the establishment of Israel, showing how the campaign in the Middle East brought into the international spotlight the tangled alliances and imperialistic and nationalistic desires that have left an indelible mark on the region to this day. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)940.438History and Geography Europe Europe Military History Of World War I Special campaigns and battlesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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