Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813123837)

In the modern popular imagination, the British Army's campaign in the Middle East during World War I is considered somehow less brutal than the fighting on European battlefields. A romantic view of this conflict has been further encouraged by such films as Lawrence of Arabia and The Light Horsemen. In Hell in the Holy Land, David R. Woodward uses graphic eyewitness accounts from the diaries, letters, and memoirs of British soldiers who fought in that war to describe in rigorous detail the genuin

Author: David R. Woodward
ISBN-10: 0813123836
ISBN-13: 9780813123837
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2006
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.22w x 0.97d