The First World War (4) The Mediterranean Front 1914–1923

by HICKEY, MICHAEL

• ISBN13: 9781841763736
• ISBN10: 184176373X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-25
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Summary

The First World War in the Mediterranean represented more than just a peripheral theatre to the war on the western front. This engaging volume includes details of allied attempts to capture Constantinople; bloody campaigning in Northern Italy; the defence of the Suez Canal and the defeat of the Turkish army in Palestine. The Arab revolt, skirmishes in North Africa and the entrapment of a huge allied garrison in Greece - the 'worlds biggest prison camp' as the Germans described it - are also covered. The result was the fall of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires and the birth of nations unknown in 1914.

Author Biography

Michael Hickey joined the army in 1947 and served in Korea, East Africa, Suez and Aden. Before his retirement in 1981 he was Colonel GS Ministry of Defence. He has written a number of books, including ‘Out of the Sky’, a history of airborne warfare, and ‘Gallipoli’ (John Murray, 1995). In 2000 he was awarded the Westminster medal for Military Literature. His hobbies include cooking, brewing, walking and travel, and he is a guest lecturer on Holt's battlefield tours. Michael Hickey is married with two sons, two dogs and a domesticated turkey, and lives in Winchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(4)
Chronology	11	(3)
Background to war
The road to war	14	(7)
Warring sides
The opposing armies	21	(12)
Outbreak
Countdown to war	33	(2)
The fighting
War in the Mediterranean	35	(38)
Portrait of a soldier
Cecil, Harold and Noel Wright	73	(5)
The world around war
The loose ends of war	78	(4)
Portrait of a civilian
War on the home front	82	(5)
How the war ended
End of the tragedy	87	(2)
Conclusion and consequences
Aftermaths	89	(3)
Further reading	92	(2)
Index	94