奥斯曼帝国在巴勒斯坦抗击英国人的战役在一次大战中经常被忽视，但从军事史的角度来看，这些战役很迷人，而且由于它们对现代中东的影响而至关重要。爱德华·埃里克森（Edward Erickson）对1914年至1918年间为控制巴勒斯坦而进行的四年斗争——为苏伊士、西奈、加沙、约旦和叙利亚而战——的权威性和引人入胜的描述，揭示了全球冲突中鲜为人知的这一方面，它以一种惊人的原创方式，从奥斯曼帝国的角度报道了这场战争。
他利用土耳其官方历史和军事档案，讲述了整个战役过程，从德国领导的奥斯曼军队对西奈半岛和苏伊士运河的最初攻击，加沙的斗争和阿拉伯起义的爆发，到英国的攻势，耶路撒冷之战，奥斯曼帝国在梅吉多的战败和英国的快速推进导致1918年大马士革和阿勒颇被占领。
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Palestine: The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914-1918
The campaigns fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine are often neglected in accounts of the Great War, yet they are fascinating from the point of view of military history and critically important because of their impact upon the modern Middle East. Edward Erickson’s authoritative and absorbing account of the four-year struggle for control of Palestine between 1914 and 1918 – of the battles fought for Suez, Sinai, Gaza, Jordan and Syria – opens up this little-understood aspect of the global conflict and it does so in a strikingly original way, by covering the fighting from the Ottoman perspective.
Using Turkish official histories and military archives, he recounts the entire course of the campaigns, from the initial attack by German-led Ottoman forces on Sinai and the Suez Canal, the struggle for Gaza and the outbreak of the Arab Revolt to the British offensives, the battle for Jerusalem, the Ottoman defeat at Megiddo and the rapid British advance which led to the capture of Damascus and Aleppo in 1918.
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