Download The Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I: The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East AudioBook Free
Most catalogs and documentaries about the First World Warfare concentrate on the carnage of the Western Front, where Germany experienced off against France, the Uk Empire, and their allies in a grueling slugfest that thrown away millions of lives. The shattered landscaping of the trenches is becoming symbolic of the conflict all together, which is this experience that everyone associates with World Warfare I, but that forward was not the one experience. There is the greater mobile Eastern Front, as well as mountain warfare in the Alps and scattered fighting in Africa and the Far East. There is also the center Eastern Front, in both Levant and Mesopotamia, which captured the creativeness of the Western european open public. There, the British and their allies fought the Ottoman Turkish Empire under tough desert conditions a huge selection of miles from your home, struggling for ownership of places most people only understood from the Bible and the Koran. The campaign to protect British Egypt from Turkish invasion was especially important to the Allied conflict work. The Turks desired to cut the Suez Canal, a essential supply route connecting the Mediterranean with British colonies in East Africa and India and Britain's allies in Australia and New Zealand. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany quipped that the canal was the "jugular vein of the Uk Empire". Egypt at the outbreak of conflict was still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, though British troops have been there since 1882, and the Uk ruled in all but name, with an Egyptian khedive as the expected head of status. Once the Ottoman Empire entered the conflict in late October of 1914, the Uk were quick to make Egypt a protectorate.
