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
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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