Great War in the Middle East

Robert Johnson is Director of the Changing Character of War Centre and Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, the University of Oxford, UK.James E. Kitchen is Senior Lecturer in War Studies in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesList of MapsContributorsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction – The Great War in the Middle East: The Clash of Empires and Global WarRobert Johnson and James E. KitchenPart One: Strategy1 British Strategy and the Imperial Axis in the Middle East, 1914-18Robert Johnson2 Le front du Moyen-Orient: The Middle East in French Great War Strategy, 1914-18Sneha Reddy3 Greece’s Entry into the Great War: Attitudes and Dilemmas towards the Eastern QuestionDimitrios Giannikopoulos4 German Middle East Policy and the Expedition to Georgia, 1918Peter Lieb5 Dismantling Empires, Expanding Empires: The Turks and the Arabs in British PropagandaSadia McEvoyPart Two: Experience6 From Kut to Mosul: Lessons Learnt by the Indian Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-18Kaushik Roy7 Conflicting Attitudes Towards the Enemy: Anzac and Turkish Soldiers Before and After the Gallipoli CampaignAlev Karaduman8 ‘A Hope So Transcendent’: The Arab Revolt in the Great War and T.E. LawrenceHimmet Umunç9 The Third Battle of Gaza, October-November 1917: The Integration of Air, Land, and Maritime FirepowerPaul Latawski10 Fighting for Britain, the Yishuv, and Zionism: The Jewish Legion at War, 1917-21James E. KitchenPart Three: Context11 The Great War, Egypt, and British Martial Law ReconsideredMario M. Ruiz12 Reactions to the Ottoman Jihad fatwa in the British Empire, 1914-18John Slight13 ‘Civilisation and Competence’: Displaying Ottoman War Paintings to their AlliesGizem Tongo14 ‘Land of Sin and Sand and Sepsis!’ Imperial Fiction and the First World War in Egypt, Sinai, and PalestineJustin Fantauzzo15 Between Rome and Jerusalem: Catholics Negotiating Empires and War in Palestine, 1850-1930Roberto MazzaAfterwordRob FletcherIndex