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WAR IN THE DESERT

 

Robert D. Morritt

 

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          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’.