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Australia's Palestine Campaign: 1916-18 (Australian Army Campaigns Series)
Australia's Palestine Campaign 191618 - Australian Army Campaigns Series Author:Jean Bou 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 endeavor of the First World War after the Western Front. And yet apart from the battle of Beersheba, the Palestine Campaign receives little attention in Austr... more »alia 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 maneuver. 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.« less