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This book offers an excellent concise history of the British campaign, including many Australian and New Zealand troops, to take Jerusalem from the Turks and Germans during World War I. Weintraub tells this story in only 140 pages, but despite its concision, his book contains many fascinating details, ranging from the insects plaguing the British and Australian troops in the Sinai desert, the troops' inadequate food rations, and their lack of cover from German planes in the open desert. [...] All in all this a very worthwhile study and is highly recommended for anyone interested in World War I. Stephen E. Tabachnick, University of MemphisEnglish Literature in Translation 61/2 (2018)

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Stanley Weintraub, PhD, published his first biography, about Lawrence of Arabia's postwar years, in 1963. Since then he has been writing about other notable lives, and about wars, from the rebellion in America to Korea, with many of his books combining both aspects. Before beginning his writing career, he earned a Bronze Star in Korea as a young Army officer. He has published books about the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Korean War, as well as biographies of American and English figures of political, cultural and military significance, from Queen Victoria (which reached #1 on The Times bestseller list), Aubrey Beardsley (a National Book Award finalist), George Washington, to Dwight D. Eisenhower, among many others. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University.

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