British Campaigns in the Nearer East 1914–1918

Volume 2: The Tide of Victory, from the Salonica Campaign of 1916 to the Armistice

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, xv + 240pp, with 14 maps (the thirty maps referred to on the wrapper is the total number in volumes 1 and 2).

This book studies the campaigns of the British armies in the Nearer East from 1916 to the end of the war. Contents: 1. The Salonica and Egyptian Campaigns of 1916, 2. The Recapture of Kut and the Taking of Bagdad, 3. Mesopotamia Campaign after the Capture of Bagdad, 4. The Campaign of Syria: January to October 1917, 5. The Victories of Beershebe and Gaza, 6. The Taking of Jerusalem, 7. The German-Turkish Reaction in Syria, 8. The Turkish Overthrow, 9. The Advance to Damascus and Aleppo, 10. The Last Phase in the Balkans, 11. The British Forces in Italy, and 12. The End in Mesopotamia. Illustrated with fourteen maps.

Condition

Quite a rare title to find in the original wrapper. The book is in good, strong readable condition, with a little mottling to the edges of the blue cloth boards and light foxing and tanning throughout. The dustwrapper is sunned to the spine and along to top 3cm of the front panel, and with a few small closed tears to the edges.

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