Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East PDF
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Eden to Armageddon World War I in the Middle East Roger Ford PEGASUS BOOKS Roger Ford’s work encompasses both narrative military history and that of military, aviation and naval technology. It includes a highly acclaimed account of the development and employment of the machine gun, The Grim Reaper (1996), and a two-volume history of the part Allied special forces played behind German lines in France in 1944: Fire from the Forest (2003), which dealt with the role of the SAS, and Steel from the Sky (2004), which described that of the little-known Jedburgh teams, the first of a new breed of military advisors. After many years in London and a period in Tuscany, he and his wife now life in southern France. Contents List of Maps List of Illustrations OVERTURE 1 The Route to War PART I MESOPOTAMIA 2 To the Garden of Eden 3 Besieged at Kut 4 To Baghdad and Beyond 5 On to Mosul PART II THE CAUCASUS, ARMENIA, ANATOLIA AND PERSIA 6 Sarikamiş Faciasi 7 The Turks Fight Back 8 Anatolia Invaded 9 Armenia, Azerbaijan and Persia PART III THE DARDANELLES AND GALLIPOLI 10 To Constantinople! 11 Landings and Stalemates 12 A Failure of Leadership PART IV EGYPT, PALESTINE AND SYRIA 13 Suez and Sinai 14 To the Gates of Palestine 15 Through Gaza to Judaea 16 By Way of Armageddon PART V AFTERMATH AND CONCLUSIONS 17 Defeat and Victory, Dismemberment and Renewal Image Gallery Notes Select Bibliography Index List of Maps Map 1 Eurasia in 1914 Map 2a The Ottoman Empire in 1875 Map 2b The Ottoman Empire in 1914 Map 3 The Western Limits of The Ottoman Empire: 1832, 1856, 1878, 1914 Map 4 Mesopotamia Theatre of Operations Map 5 Mesopotamia—Amara to the Gulf Map 6 Mesopotamia—Ctesiphon to Amara Map 7 Mesopotamia—The Adhaim/Diyala Basin Map 8 Mesopotamia—Mosul to the Adhaim Map 9 Caucasus Theatre of Operations Map 10 Caucasus—Erzurum to Kars Map 11 Caucasus—The Upper E. Euphrates Basin Map 12 Caucasus—Eastern Anatolia Map 13 Caucasus—Azerbaijan and W. Persia Map 14 SE Macedonia, Thrace and NW Anatolia Map 15 Gallipoli and The Dardanelles Map 16 Gallipoli—The Dardanelles Naval Defences Map 17 Gallipoli—The Anzac Cove Positions Map 18 Gallipoli—The Landings at Cape Helles Map 19 Gallipoli—The Suvla Bay Positions Map 20 Gallipoli—The Cape Helles Positions Map 21 Palestine Theatre of Operations Map 22 Palestine—The Suez Canal and N. Sinai Map 23a The Hejaz (Northern Part) Map 23b The Hejaz (Southern Part) Map 24 Palestine—Southern Approaches to Gaza Map 25 Palestine—Southern Part (Philistia and Judaea) Map 26 Palestine—Prior to the Third Battle of Gaza Map 27 Palestine—Northern Part (Galilee) Map 28 The Middle East as proposed by the Treaty of Sèvres Map 29 Anatolia (North-Western Part) Map 30 Eurasia by 1939 List of Illustrations Sultan Abdul Hamid II Ismail Enver Pasha Ahmed Jemal Pasha Mehmet Talaat Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz Brig.-Gen. Walter Delamain Lt.-Gen. Sir Arthur Barrett Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Townshend Lt.-Gen. Sir John Nixon Lt.-Gen. Sir Percy Lake Lt.-Gen. Sir Fenton Aylmer VC Maj.-Gen. Sir George Gorringe Sir Frederick Maude Sir William Marshall Halil Pasha and staff Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill and Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher Rear-Adm. John de Roebeck Rear-Adm. Rosslyn Wemyss Maj.-Gen. Aylmer Hunter-Weston Mustafa Kemal Lt.-Gen. Sir Frederick Stopford Lt.-Gen. Sir Bryan Mahon Sir Ian Hamilton and Gen. Henri Gouraud Gen. Henri Gouraud and Gen. Maurice Bailloud at Gallipoli Maj.-Gen. Beauvoir de Lisle Lt.-Gen. Sir Julian Byng Lt.-Gen. Sir William Birdwood Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich Feisal ibn Hussein Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby Captain T.E. Lawrence Kaiser Wilhelm II David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson The Bab-i Ali Bashi-Bazouks SMS Goeben Riverine hospital ship Turkish ski troops Dunsterforce advance party Towing landing parties to ANZAC Cove Australian troops aboard HMS Prince of Wales ANZAC wounded Steam drifters Australian troops charging at Gallipoli The Royal Naval Division rehearsing an attack Australian sniper and observer at Quinn’s Post ANZAC dugouts giving onto terraces ANZAC Outpost No. 2 inland from North Beach Steele’s Post at ANZAC Cove Senegalese at Gallipoli 75mm field gun in action V Beach at Cape Helles British machine gunners, Gallipoli Bathing at Helles Kiretch Tepe Turkish field artillery Australian dressing station Suvla Point HMS Cornwallis Playing cricket to deceive the Turks The Hureira Redoubt Turkish machine gunners on the Gaza-Beersheba Line Gen. Kress von Kressenstein inspecting Turkish stormtroopers Turkish infantry north of Jerusalem Australian Light Horse entering Damascus Greek forces at Smyrna, 1919
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