Megiddo 1918

The last great cavalry victory

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Megiddo 1918

The last great cavalry victory

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Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Megiddo (1918), which was one of the more decisive campaigns of World War I (1914-1918). After securing the capture of Jerusalem General Allenby planned a campaign that would knock Turkey out of World War I. In a spectacular campaign General Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force achieved the breakthrough in Palestine that commanders on the Western Front had only dreamed of. Supported by Lawrence and his Arab irregulars, the Desert Mounted Corps swept across the Turkish rear, destroying three armies in the process. Turkey's war was over and the days of the tottering Ottoman Empire were numbered. This was a British 'Blitzkrieg' with a speed of advance that stunned the world twenty years before Germany's Panzers rolled across Europe.

Table of Contents

Origins of the Campaign
Opposing Commanders
Opposing Armies
Opposing Plans
The Battle of Megiddo
The Legacy of Megiddo
The Battlefield Today

Chronology
Wargaming Megiddo
Further Reading

Product details

Published Feb 09 2010
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781855328273
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 78 b/w; 14 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 61
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Bryan Perrett

Bryan Perrett was born in 1934 and educated at Liv…

Illustrator

Ed Dovey

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