The First World War (4)
The Mediterranean Front 1914–1923
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About this book
The First World War in the Mediterranean represented more than just a peripheral theatre to the war on the western front. This engaging volume includes details of allied attempts to capture Constantinople; bloody campaigning in Northern Italy; the defence of the Suez Canal and the defeat of the Turkish army in Palestine. The Arab revolt, skirmishes in North Africa and the entrapment of a huge allied garrison in Greece - the 'worlds biggest prison camp' as the Germans described it - are also covered. The result was the fall of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires and the birth of nations unknown in 1914.
Contents
Introduction · Chronology · Background to war: The road to war· Warring sides: The opposing armies · Outbreak: Countdown to war · The fighting: War in the Mediterranean · Portrait of a soldier: Cecil, Harold and Noel Wright · The world around war: The loose ends of war · Portrait of a civilian: War on the home front · How the war ended: End of the tragedy · Conclusion and consequences: Aftermaths
Paperback; July 2002; 96 pages; ISBN: 9781841763736