Lawrence of Arabia's war
Subtitle: the Arabs, the British and the remaking of the Middle East in WWI
By: Neil Faulkner
Publisher: Yale University Press; imusti
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780300196832
Subjects: Campaigns; World War, 1914-1918; World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; Military campaigns; History
Description: Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. In Lawrence of Arabia's War, the author rewrites the history of T.E. Lawrence's legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today's divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.

Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Holy war?; title: Young Turks; title: Little Mehmet; title: For sultan and caliph; title: Sinai bridgehead; title: The Battle of Romani; title: The Arab revolt; title: A crusader, an unknown desert, and a new way of war; title: The gates of Palestine; title: Aqaba; title: Bull loose; title: The railway war; title: The Third Battle of Gaza; title: Jerusalem; title: The mountains of Moab; title: Special operations; title: Armageddon; title: Epilogue.