The Campaign in the Desert, Palestine & Syria as Experienced by the Honourable Artillery Company During the Great War
Hardback
Publication Date: 09/01/2008
The Great War in the Middle East as seen by a British artilleryman Antony Bluett, a serving member of the Honourable Artillery Company, has given us a vital account of the Great War as it was fought in the Egyptian Desert, across the Sinai peninsula into Palestine, the capture of Jerusalem and on to victory in Lebanon and Syria. He tells his story as he saw the war from with his battery of guns-which played its part in this untypical theatre of fluid manoeuvring that brought about the fall of the declining Turkish Ottoman Empire. His was not simply a war of artillery duels and the ever present danger of bombs from enemy aircraft. The very environment was an enemy, fluctuating between searing daytime heat and freezing cold nights on difficult terrain. We are introduced to the difficulties of handling horses, guns and wagons in a war far different to that of the Western Front. The entire campaign is entertainingly recounted including lively accounts of the activities of the Welsh, Scottish and London infantry regiments, the colonial light horsemen and Cameliers together with the long suffering Egyptian labourers who carved camps, fortifications and roads out of the most inhospitable landscape.
- ISBN:
- 9781846773822
- 9781846773822
- Category:
- First World War
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 09-01-2008
- Publisher:
- Leonaur Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 236
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x140x18mm
- Weight:
- 0.44kg
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