Desert Insurgency
Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 August 2020
- ISBN 9780198722007
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 252x196x24 mm
- Weight 1006 g
- Language English 90
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Short description:
This unique archaeological account from Nicholas Saunders tells the story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. The discovery of an unknown conflict landscape reveals the dramatic exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, Bedouin warriors, and their attacks on the Hejaz Railway during the First World War.
MoreLong description:
In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counter-insurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, and Bedouin warriors, and the dramatic events of the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. Ten years of research in this prehistoric terrain has revealed sites lost for almost 100 years: vast campsites occupied by railway builders; Ottoman Turkish machine-gun redoubts; Rolls Royce Armoured Car raiding camps; an ephemeral Royal Air Force desert aerodrome; as well as the actual site of the Hallat Ammar railway ambush. This unique and richly illustrated account from Nicholas Saunders tells, in intimate detail, the story of a seminal episode of the First World War and the reshaping of the Middle East that followed.
Desert Insurgency is a well-written and lavishly illustrated volume that describes the surveys and excavations of the Great Arab Revolt Project
Table of Contents:
Maps
Introduction
Into the Ghost-Land
Archaeology, Material Worlds, and the Arab Revolt
The Hejaz Railway: Faith, Conflict, and Afterlife
Guerillas and the 'Sultan's Mule'
Conflict on Jebel Sherra: Ma'an to the Blockhouse
'Belly of the Beast': Abdullah's Fort to Batn al-Ghoul
Forts, Stations, and Ancestors: Wadi Rutm to Tel Shahm
Concealment, Raiding, and Ambush: Tooth Hill to Hallat Ammar
Beyond the Railway
Timeline of Major Events on the Hejaz Railway Between Ma'an to Mudawwara, 1900-2018
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