Palestine and World War I

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.

Eran Dolev is Associate Professor of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and former Surgeon-General of the Israeli Defence Forces. Sheffy Yigal is Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel, (the Program for Security Studies) and Haifa University (Department of Political Science, Program of National security and Department of History of the Middle East) Haim Goren is Associate Professor of History and Geography at Tel Hai University, Israel.

Preface viii List of Contributors xiv 1. The Palestine Campaign within the Great War Jay Winter Part I A 'Multinational Campaign' 2. Alsace-Lorraine Soldiers in the Palestine Campaign: Conformism and Specificities of a National Minority within the German Military Mission in Turkey Jean-Noel Grandhomme 3. Hopes and Jealousies: Rome's Ambitions in the Middle East and the Italian Contingent in Palestine, 1915 - 1920 Nir Arielli 4. The Conquest of Beersheba, 1917, Revisited: The Crucial Role of German Air Squadron No. 301 Benjamin Z. Kedar Part II Strategic-Political Aspects of the Campaign 5. Loyalty, Indifference, Treason: The Ottoman - German Experience in Palestine during World War I Tilman Lü dke 6. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby: One of the Great Captains of History? Matthew Hughes Part III Military Aspects of the Campaign 7. A Different Kind of Battle: Allenby's Anti-Malaria Campaign, Palestine, 1918 Eran Dolev, MD 8. A Cavalry Victory? Cavalry in the historiography of the Sinai-Palestine Campaign Jean Bou 9. Mapping for the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917 Peter Collier 10. Destabilizing the Enemy: The Raid on Nazareth, 19 - 20 September 1918 Yigal Sheffy Part IV Palestine during the Campaign 11. A Diplomat in the Holy City: the Spanish Consul and World War I in Jerusalem Roberto Mazza 12. The Situation in Jerusalem during World War I, According to the Memoirs of Wasif Jawharieh 228 Mustafa Abassi 13. The Haifa Community Committee During World War I: Laying the Foundations for Multi-ethnic Public Leadership in the City Anat Kidron 14. The Jewish Colonization Association in the Galilee - The Day After Yair Seltenreich vi PALESTINE AND THE FIRSTWORLD WAR Part V Cultural Aspects of the Campaign 15. Hebrew Literature of World War I in Palestine Glenda Abramson 16. 'On the rock-strewn hills I heard/The anger of guns': Siegfried Sassoon in Palestine Nancy Rosenfeld Index