Palestine and World War I

ISBN: 9781780763590 出版年：2014 页码：360 Haim Goren Bloomsbury Publishing

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 tthe 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 smost influential stories of the Great War, from T.E. Lawrence's Ardesert, to General Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot in 1917. Palestine and World War I shows how the events of the Great Wlasting legacy in the Middle East.