| Description |
1 online resource (552 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I. Prelude -- The political economy of the empires in 1914 -- Military campaigning in the Middle East -- Part II. Military operations -- The Caucasus campaigns -- Gallipoli and Salonika -- Egypt and Palestine -- Mesopotamia -- Part III. Politics and diplomacy -- The struggle for political control in the Middle East -- The post-war settlements, 1919-1923 |
| Summary |
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Pow |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Middle East
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Military campaigns
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Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781849042741 |
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1849042748 |
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