Egypt / Palestine / Middle East

THE FIGHTING CAMELIERS by Frank Reid. The war in Sinai & Palestine from the irrepressible viewpoint of the Camel Soldiers There are few accounts of the exploits of the Imperial Camel Corps but ‘The Fighting Cameliers’ has the distinction of being written in an easy going immediate style full of incident, dialogue and action that brings the soldiers that comprised this unique fighting force into sharp relief. Written primarily from an Australian perspective.

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PRISONERS OF THE RED DESERT by R. S. Gwatkin-Williams. The Adventures of the Crew of the Tara During the First World War. The steamer Tara and her crew spent the early part of WW1 patrolling the Northern Channel between England and Ireland before a transfer to coastal duties off Egypt and Libya. There she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat operating from a secret base on the Libyan coast. To ensure no intelligence of it's presence leaked to the British, the Germans towed the survivors—including this book’s author, the Tara’s captain, into captivity at the hands of the Senussi—religious zealots in league with the Ottoman Turkish forces. Then began a tortuous ordeal for the crew who suffered abuse, starvation and in some cases death at the hands of their gaolers. Abortive escape attempts across the relentless 'Red Desert' followed before rescue finally came in the form of a dramatic hunt and final assault by the forty armoured cars of the Duke of Westminster's squadron.

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A GUNNER'S CRUSADE - The Campaign in the Desert, Palestine & Syria as Experienced by the Honourable Artillery Company During the Great War by Antony Bluett. An account of the Great War as it was fought in the Egyptian Desert, across the Sinai Peninsula into Palestine, the capture of Jerusalem and on to victory in Lebanon and Syria. Bluett tells his story as he saw the war from with his battery of guns-which played its part in this untypical theatre of fluid manoeuvring that brought about the fall of the declining Turkish Ottoman Empire. His was not simply a war of artillery duels and the ever present danger of bombs from enemy aircraft. The very environment was an enemy, fluctuating between searing daytime heat and freezing cold nights on difficult terrain.

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WITH THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS IN THE GREAT WAR - The story of a serving officer with the British 2nd battalion against the Senussi and during the Palestine campaign by Geoffrey Inchbald. The Imperial Camel Corps had a short but eventful existence. Operating in the Western Desert against the Senussi in Sinai, in the Palestine Campaign and in Arabia, it played an important part in the actions associated with T.E Lawrence. The deployment of his highly mobile mounted force, drawn from Imperial troops, was extremely successful. Inchbald’s account of his time as an officer with the 2nd Battalion, which was comprised entirely of British Troops, vividly recounts the eventful exploits of this unique corps.

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