Australia's Palestine Campaign 1916-1918

Download or read book Australia's Palestine Campaign 1916-1918 written by Jean Bou and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years the Palestine Campaign was Australia's longest running militarily significant endeavour of the First World War after the Western Front. And yet apart from the battle of Beersheba, the Palestine Campaign receives little attention in Australia compared to Gallipoli and the Western Front. In contrast to the years of grinding trench warfare in France and Belgium, the Palestine Campaign was a war of relative movement and manoeuvre. Cavalry, including Australia's light horse, played a prominent role, but it was a hard fought fully modern war, in which the latest military technologies and techniques were all used.