The Great War in the Middle East

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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 Umunc

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