Soldiers' tales
Subtitle: two Palestinian Jewish soldiers in the Ottoman Army during the first world war
By: Glenda Abramson
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780853039563
Subjects: Diaries; World War, 1914-1918; Jewish Personal narratives; Sources; Jewish Participation; Jewish soldiers; History; Conscript labor; Turkey. Ordu; Turkey
Description: "When Herman Melville arrived in Jerusalem in the winter of 1857 he was startled and dismayed by the contrast between his expectations of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and their reality. He wrote in his journal that no country would more quickly dissipate romantic expectations than Palestine, and he singled out Jerusalem in particular."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.