Bibliograph

Australia's Palestine campaign, Jean Bou

Type

Label

Australia's Palestine campaign, Jean Bou

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Australia's Palestine campaign

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jean Bou

Series statement

Australian Army campaigns series, 7

Summary

With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years, the Palestine Campaign was Australia's longest-running militarily-significant endeavour of the First World War after the Western Front. And yet apart from the battle of Beersheba, the Palestine Campaign receives little attention in Australia compared to Gallipoli and the Western Front. In contrast to the years of grinding trench warfare in France and Belgium, the Palestine Campaign was a war of relative movement and manoeuvre. Cavalry, including Australia's light horse, played a prominent role, but it was a hard-fought fully-modern war, in which the latest military technologies and techniques were all used

Table Of Contents

Prelude : the Sinai and Palestine frontier, 1916-17 -- Gaza-Beersheba and the advance to Jerusalem, 1917 -- Jordan Valley, 1918 -- Megiddo, 1918 -- Epilogue: After the armistice

Target audience

adult

Creator