The Great War in the Middle East by Robert Johnson, James Kit... - 9781138731332

Taylor & Francis

The Great War in the Middle EastA Clash of Empires\nAuthor(s): Robert Johnson, James Kitchen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138731332, 978-1138731332\nSynopsis\nTraditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Arabia offered a different narrative on the Great War, one in which the agency of individual figures was less neutered by heavy artillery.\n\nAs with the historiography of the Western Front, which has been the focus of sustained inquiry since the mid-1960s, such assumptions about the Middle East have come under revision in the last two decades a reflection of an emerging global turn in the history of the First World War. The sideshow theatres of the Great War Africa, the Middle E.