National Army Museum Book
of the Turkish Front 1914-18
The Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia & in Palestine
Pan Grand Strategy Series

By Field Marshal Lord Carver
June 2004
Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330491083
294 pages, Illustrated, 5" x 7 ¾"
$18.95 Paper Original

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Most of the books that have been written about the Turkish Front in World War I are only about Gallipoli rather than including Palestine, Mesopotamia and the Balkans too.

This is a historically important campaign as the destruction of the Ottoman Empire led to political turmoil in the Middle East. But it also has a big emotional pull. With extracts from the letters, diaries and other papers of those involved, this is a moving and hard-hitting book. Casualties were high, both in action and from disease.

There were many examples of great courage and endurance, and some instances of a significant lack of these qualities. Heights of incompetence at the higher levels were seen at Sulva Bay and in some action in Mesopotamia. The accounts in this book provide a stark reminder of what the soldiers endured.


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