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The Great War in the Middle East: A Clash of Empires book cover

1st Edition

The Great War in the Middle East A Clash of Empires

Edited By Robert Johnson, James Kitchen Copyright 2019
364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge
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Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Arabia offered a different narrative on the Great War, one in which the agency of individual figures was less neutered by... Read more

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Contributors



Acknowledgements



List of Abbreviations





　



Introduction – The Great War in the Middle East: The Clash of Empires and Global War



Robert Johnson and James E. Kitchen





Part One: Strategy





1 British Strategy and the Imperial Axis in the Middle East, 1914-18



Robert Johnson





2 Le front du Moyen-Orient: The Middle East in French Great War Strategy, 1914-18



Sneha Reddy





3 Greece’s Entry into the Great War: Attitudes and Dilemmas towards the Eastern Question



Dimitrios Giannikopoulos





4 German Middle East Policy and the Expedition to Georgia, 1918



Peter Lieb





5 Dismantling Empires, Expanding Empires: The Turks and the Arabs in British Propaganda



Sadia McEvoy





Part Two: Experience





6 From Kut to Mosul: Lessons Learnt by the Indian Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-18



Kaushik Roy





7 Conflicting Attitudes Towards the Enemy: Anzac and Turkish Soldiers Before and After the Gallipoli Campaign



Alev Karaduman





8 ‘A Hope So Transcendent’: The Arab Revolt in the Great War and T.E. Lawrence



Himmet Umunç





9 The Third Battle of Gaza, October-November 1917: The Integration of Air, Land, and Maritime Firepower



Paul Latawski





10 Fighting for Britain, the Yishuv, and Zionism: The Jewish Legion at War, 1917-21



James E. Kitchen





Part Three: Context





11 The Great War, Egypt, and British Martial Law Reconsidered



Mario M. Ruiz





12 Reactions to the Ottoman Jihad fatwa in the British Empire, 1914-18



John Slight





13 ‘Civilisation and Competence’: Displaying Ottoman War Paintings to their Allies



Gizem Tongo





14 ‘Land of Sin and Sand and Sepsis!’ Imperial Fiction and the First World War in Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine



Justin Fantauzzo





15 Between Rome and Jerusalem: Catholics Negotiating Empires and War in Palestine, 1850-1930



Roberto Mazza





Afterword



Rob Fletcher





　



Index





　

Biography

Robert Johnson is Director of the Changing Character of War Centre and Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, the University of Oxford, UK.



James E. Kitchen is Senior Lecturer in War Studies in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK.

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