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Hughes, Matthew - Command, Strategy and the Battle for Palestine, 1917

Keywords:

British command | Chief of the Imperial General Staff | David Lloyd George | grand strategy | Palestine campaign

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Middle East | Britain | Politics | The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East

Abstract:

This chapter examines the interchange between and within British command and grand strategy during the Palestine campaign of 1917, a significant military operation that drew off hundreds of thousands of Entente and Central alliance soldiers, one w…