Palestine and World War I Grand Strategy, Military Tactics and Culture in War

by Dolev, Eran; Sheffy, Yigal; Goren, Haim

• ISBN13: 9781780763590
• ISBN10: 178076359X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-12
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

The Palestine Campaign undertaken by the British during the Great War has become one of the most glorified military offensives of the 20th Century. Shattering the reach of Ottoman imperial power for the final time, the conflict both pushed Germany back into Europe and laid the groundwork for splitting up the Middle East into the nations that we recognize today. Meanwhile, the secretive Sykes-Picot Agreement ensured the British and French would continue to exert colonial influence in the Middle East for the next sixty years. Palestine and World War I is a new exploration of the social and cultural history of the campaign, which seeks to unravel the combination of myths and memory from which we inherit the romantic desert persona of Lawrence of Arabia and the image of General Allenby symbolically entering the Holy City on foot. With a compelling Foreword by Jay Winter, Palestine and World War I augments our existing understanding of the origins of contemporary conflict in the Middle East and provides a valuable new perspective into the ongoing tensions within the Arab World.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
1. The Palestine Campaign within the Great War
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
3. 'O tutti o nessuno': Italian ambitions in Palestine and the Middle East, 1915-1920 and Local Culture during the Campaign
4. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: Imperial Turning Point
5. Alsace-Lorraine Soldiers in the Palestine Campaign: Conformism and Specificities of a National Minority within the German Military Mission in Turkey
Cultural Aspects of the Campaign
5. Hebrew Literature of World War I in Palestine
6. 'On the rock-strewn hills I heard / The anger of guns': Siegfried Sassoon in Palestine
Strategic-Political Aspects of the Campaign
7. Loyalty, Indifference, Treason: The Ottoman-German Experience in Palestine during World War I
8. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby: One of the Great Captains of History?
Military Aspects of the Campaign
9. A Different Kind of Battle: Allenby's Anti-Malaria Campaign, Palestine, 1918
10. A Cavalry Victory? Cavalry in the Historiography of the Sinai-Palestine Campaign
11. Mapping for the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917
Palestine during the Campaign
12. American 'Welfare Politics': Americans in Jerusalem during World War I
13. The Haifa Community Committee During World War I: Laying the Foundations for Multi-Ethnic Public Leadership in the City
14. The Jewish Colonization Association in the Galilee - The Day After
15. Dining Out in the Holy City: the Spanish Consul in Jerusalem 1914-1920
16. The Situation in Jerusalem during World War I: According to the Memoirs of Wasif Jawharieh