Apart from the battle of Beersheba, the Palestine Campaign receives little attention in Australia compared to Gallipoli and the Western Front. With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years, however, it was Australia's longest running militarily significant endeavour of the First World War after the Western Front. In contrast to the years of grinding trench warfare in France and Belgium, the Palestine Campaign was a war of relative movement and manoeuvre. Cavalry, including Australia's light horse, played a prominent role, but it was a hard fought fully modern war, in which the latest military technologies and techniques were all used. -- From the back cover.

Prelude : the Sinai and Palestine frontier, 1916-17 -- Gaza-Beersheba and the advance into Jerusalem, 1917 -- The Jordan Valley, 1918 -- Megiddo, 1918 -- Epilogue : after the armistice -- Conclusion.