The recovery of Palestine, 1917 :: Jerusalem for Christmas /

By mid-1917, with the world war going badly on all fronts, and casualties burgeoning, Prime Minister David Lloyd George met with General Edmund Allenby, fresh from France. Lloyd George wanted "Jerusalem for Christmas" as a holiday "present" for the increasingly disillusioned Brit...

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1. Verfasser: Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Zusammenfassung:By mid-1917, with the world war going badly on all fronts, and casualties burgeoning, Prime Minister David Lloyd George met with General Edmund Allenby, fresh from France. Lloyd George wanted "Jerusalem for Christmas" as a holiday "present" for the increasingly disillusioned British people. Its seizure would also eliminate the Ottomans, who had inflicted the dismaying disaster at the Dardanelles, as a factor in the war. As Allenby departed, the PM handed him George Adam Smith's Historical Geography of the Holy Land, remarking that it was a better guide to reaching Jerusalem than anything "in t
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 140 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443879590
1443879592