Allenby's Gunners - Artillery in the Sinai & Palestine Campaigns 1916-1918 Tapa dura - 2016

Big Sky, Australia, 2016. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Book Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Item Type: Book. ISBN/EAN: 9781925275759.. 9781925275759

Big Sky Publishing, 2016. New book, 376 pages. Alan Smith's Allenby’s Gunners tells the story of artillery in the highly successful World War I Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Following Gallipoli and the reconstitution of the AIF, a shortage of Australian gunners saw British Territorial artillery allotted to the Australian Light Horse and New Zealand Mounted Rifle brigades. It was a relationship that would prove highly successful and 'Allenby's Gunners' provides a detailed and colourful description of the artillery war, cavalry and infantry operations from the first battles of Romani and Rafa, through the tough actions at Gaza, the Palestine desert, Jordan Valley and Amman to the capture of Jerusalem. The story concludes with the superb victory at Megiddo and the taking of Damascus until the theatre armistice of October 1918. Smith covers the trials and triumphs of the gunners as they honed their art in one of the most difficult battlefield environments of the war. The desert… Leer más

Sydney: Big Sky Publishing, 2016. 376pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, appendices, tables, bw ills, maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.