"The Palestine Campaign has become one of the most glorified military campaigns of the twentieth century. The last campaign fought by the Ottoman Army, and thus the last act of the once-mighty Ottoman Empire, the Palestine Campaign saw the British Army under General Allenby conquer the Holy Land, forcing the Turkish army back into Europe. Meanwhile the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement ensured the British and French would continue to influence the Middle East for the next 60 years. This front saw some of the most influential stories of the Great War, from T.E. Lawrence's Arab army in the desert, to General Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot in 1917. Palestine and World War I shows how the events of the Great War have left a lasting legacy in the Middle East."-- Page 2 of book jacket.

The Palestine campaign within the Great War /Jay Winter -- Part I.A 'Multinational campaign'. Alsace-Lorraine soldiers in the Palestine campaign : conformism and specificities of a national minority within the German military mission in Turkey / Jean-Noel Grandhomme -- Hopes and jealousies : Rome's ambitions in the Middle East and the Italian contingent in Palestine, 1915-1920 / Nir Arielli -- The conquest of Beersheba, 1917, revisited : the crucial role of German air squadron no. 301 / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- Part II. Strategic-political aspects of the campaign. Loyalty, indifference, treason : the Ottoman-German experience in Palestine during World War I / Tilman Lüdke -- Field Marshal Viscount Allenby : one of the great captains of history? / Matthew Hughes -- Part III. Military aspects of the campaign. A different kind of battle : Allenby's anti-malaria campaign, Palestine, 1918 / Eran Dolev's -- A cavalry victory? Cavalry in the historiography of the Sinai-Palestine campaign / Jean Bou -- Mapping for the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917 / Peter Collier -- Destabilizing the enemy : the raid on Nazareth, 19-20 September 1918 / Yigal Sheffy -- Part IV. Palestine during the campaign. A diplomat in the Holy City : the Spanish consul in Jerusalem 1914-1920 / Roberto Mazza -- The situation in Jerusalem during World War I, according to the memoirs of Wasif Jawharieh / Mustafa Abassi -- The Haifa Community Committee during World War I : laying the foundation for multi-ethnic public leadership in the city / Anat Kidron -- The Jewish Colonization Association in the Galilee : the day after / Yair Seltenreich -- Part V. Cultural aspects of the campaign. Hebrew literature of World War I in Palestine / Glenda Abramson -- 'On the rock-strewn hills I heard/The anger of guns' : Siegfried Sassoon in Palestine / Nancy Rosenfeld.