VICTORY 1918

Author: Alan Palmer

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Year published: 1998

Pagination: 368pp 23 illustrations. 6 maps

Condition: Slight creasing to d/w at bottom of spine otherwise very good

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The author uses cabinet papers, memoirs, official histories and diaries to examine the background to the Allied triumph. He also uses letters and reminiscences from officers and men to heighten the drama of neglected campaigns with almost forgotten incidents. These include: weary troops marching towards Baghdad to sleep where they halted, the cooks who declined the surrender of Jerusalem, and sandbags stuffed with seaweed in order to protect the treasures of Venice. There were four armistices that autumn, as there had been battlefronts on three continents.