The First World War, Vol. 4: The Mediterranean Front 1914-1923

by Hickey,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415968447
• ISBN10: 0415968445
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The First World War in the Mediterranean represented much more than just a peripheral theater to the war on the western front. This engaging volume includes detailed descriptions of allied attempts to capture Constantinople; bloody campaigning in northern Italy; the defense of the Suez Canal; the defeat of the Turkish army in Palestine; the Arab revolt; skirmished in North Africa; and the entrapment of an enormous Allied garrison in Greece, described by Germans as the "world's biggest prison camp." This theater of war resulted in the fall of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires, the birth of nations unknown in 1914, and the inception of new regional conflicts that continue to shape the Middle East to this day.

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