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WAR IN THE DESERT An overview of Desert Warfare in
the First ‘World War' and related events. The Arab Revolt and the prelude to
the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Observations: of the British and Turkish
Campaigns. Their successes and failures. Topography and Tactical strategies.
Attempts to control of the Suez Canal, the battles in Gaza, Damascus and the
final onslaught against Jerusalem. The Turkish Railway its inception noted by
T. E. Lawrence prior to the war whilst he was an archaeological student at
Carchemish .His clandestine position reporting on the construction and
progress of the Damascus and Baghdad Railway', and his later military
involvement during the ‘Arab Revolt’. |
