Titlebook: Camp and Combat on the Sinai and Palestine Front; The Experience of th Edward C. Woodfin Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmil

和音

Increment

Prologue,w, “Ullo, you blokes! Bin ‘a(chǎn)vin’ a good picnic out ’ere?”. By this sarcastic question, the men on deck meant that those who fought in the Middle East were shouldering less of the burden of the war than those on the Western Front.

訓(xùn)誡

The Rotten Wilderness: The Sinai,is difficult.”. As they journeyed onward, they hid behind a sand ridge as a Turkish patrol crossed the dunes far in the distance. Then they finally reached their destination, the large sand hill and oasis of Oghratina, one third of the way across the Sinai Desert and near the very outer outposts of the British army.

胡言亂語

Introduction,ies and decisions of generals take up the lion’s share of shelf space, along with discussions of tactics, weapons, and strategy. A small minority of works discuss the experiences of common soldiers, though these men did the bulk of the fighting, suffering, and dying in the war.

獨白

Prologue,particular ship passing through the Suez Canal was full of wounded Australian infantrymen heading home from the Western Front. As they sailed along the flat, barren waterway, with the beige deserts of Egypt on one side and the seemingly endless sands of the Sinai on the other, they passed through on

較早

homeostasis

Crossing the Line,h Army’s first steps out of the Sinai Desert and its first battle in the Holy Land were momentous, a turning point in the war. In his verse, he replays the gunfire and shrapnel of the battlefield, recounts the Turkish surrender of the border town of Rafah, and muses about the meaning of the conflict

PLAYS

The Gaza Trenches,ary Force. In many ways trench lines recreated the underground life that was common in other theaters of the Great War. Artillery barrages, sniper duels, and raids became a matter of routine, just as they were in France and had been in Gallipoli, though often with a distinctly Palestinian air.

obsession

Mountains of Mourning,ave happened to help pass the time,” he complained, almost wishing he were back in the more active theater in France.. This wish, though, appears to have been an idle one, for Evans made no effort to return to France. On the contrary, he tried fruitlessly to have his brother Joe transferred away fro

Kidney-Failure

,“The Unholy Land”: The Trenches of Samaria and Jordan,erly one last time. Though politicians in London began the year by pushing them to continue their advance, necessity on the Western Front overwhelmed the British Army and brought the entire theater to a halt. For the men of the EEF, the year that followed was one of bewildering complexity, one that