How Jerusalem Was Won. W. T. Massey

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       W. T. Massey

      How Jerusalem Was Won

      Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664602947

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       CHAPTER XIII

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV

       CHAPTER XVI

       CHAPTER XVII

       CHAPTER XVIII

       CHAPTER XIX

       CHAPTER XX

       APPENDICES

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VIII

       IX

       X

       INDEX

PREFACE

       Table of Contents

      This narrative of the work accomplished for civilisation by General Allenby's Army is carried only as far as the occupation of Jericho. The capture of that ancient town, with the possession of a line of rugged hills a dozen miles north of Jerusalem, secured the Holy City from any Turkish attempt to retake it. The book, in fact, tells the story of the twenty-third fall of Jerusalem, one of the most beneficent happenings of all wars, and marking an epoch in the wonderful history of the Holy Place which will rank second only to that era which saw the birth of Christianity. All that occurred in the fighting on the Gaza-Beersheba line was part and parcel of the taking of Jerusalem, the freeing of which from four centuries of Turkish domination was the object of the first part of the campaign. The Holy City was the goal sought by every officer and man in the Army; and though from the moment that goal had been attained all energies were concentrated upon driving the Turk out of the war, there was not a member of the Force, from the highest on the Staff to the humblest private in the ranks, who did not feel that Jerusalem was the greatest prize of the campaign.

      In a second volume I shall tell of that tremendous feat of arms which overwhelmed the Turkish Armies, drove them through 400 miles of country in six weeks, and gave cavalry an opportunity of proving that, despite all the arts and devices of modern warfare, with fighters and observers in the air and an entirely new mechanism of war, they continued as indispensable a part of an army as when the legions of old took the field. This is too long a story to be told in this volume, though the details of that magnificent triumph are so firmly impressed on the mind that one is loth to leave the narration of them to a future date. For the moment Jerusalem must be sufficient, and if in the telling of the British work up to that point I can succeed in giving an idea of the immense value of General Allenby's Army to the Empire, of the soldier's courage and fortitude, of his indomitable will and self-sacrifice and patriotism, it will indeed prove the most grateful task I have ever set myself.

       April 1919.

      I. PALESTINE'S INFLUENCE ON THE WAR

      II. OLD BATTLEGROUNDS

      III. DIFFICULTIES OF THE ATTACK

      IV. TRAINING THE ARMY

      V. RAILWAYS, ROADS, AND THE BASE

      VI. PREPARING FOR 'ZERO DAY'

      VII. THE BEERSHEBA VICTORY

      VIII. GAZA DEFENCES

      IX. CRUSHING THE TURKISH LEFT

      X. THROUGH GAZA INTO THE OPEN

      XI. TWO YEOMANRY CHARGES

      XII. LOOKING TOWARDS JERUSALEM

      XIII. INTO THE JUDEAN HILLS

      XIV. THE DELIVERANCE OF THE HOLY CITY

      XV. GENERAL ALLENBY'S OFFICIAL ENTRY

      XVI. MAKING JERUSALEM SECURE

      XVII. A GREAT FEAT OF WAR

      XVIII. BY THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN

      XIX. THE TOUCH OF THE CIVILISING HAND

      XX. OUR CONQUERING AIRMEN

      APPENDICES

      INDEX