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- catalog abstract ""Victory 1918 examines the background to the Allied triumph and its aftermath ... Alan Palmer draws on cabinet papers, memoirs, official histories and diaries to look at the war from the top. He also uses letters and reminiscences from officers and men in the main battle areas to heighten the drama of neglected campaigns with almost forgotten incidents: prowling wolves around British bivouacs in the Vardar blizzard; weary troops marching towards Baghdad, to sleep where they halted; the cooks who declined the surrender of Jerusalem; sandbags stuffed with seaweed to protect the treasures of Venice"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11082340.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Victory 1918 examines the background to the Allied triumph and its aftermath ... Alan Palmer draws on cabinet papers, memoirs, official histories and diaries to look at the war from the top. He also uses letters and reminiscences from officers and men in the main battle areas to heighten the drama of neglected campaigns with almost forgotten incidents: prowling wolves around British bivouacs in the Vardar blizzard; weary troops marching towards Baghdad, to sleep where they halted; the cooks who declined the surrender of Jerusalem; sandbags stuffed with seaweed to protect the treasures of Venice"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-351) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue : Dover, 3 August 1914 -- Widening the war -- Paris, Athens, Rome -- 'If we lose Egypt, we lose the war' -- Orgies of slaughter -- A victory while you wait -- Associated power -- A bull amid the camels -- Jerusalem before Christmas -- Caporetto and after -- Plans for peace and for war -- The Emperor's battle -- Outlying theatres -- The flowing tide -- Balkan express -- Roads to Damascus -- 'Every day lost ... ' -- Mudros, Padua, Belgrade -- 'Hostilities will cease at 11 a.m.' -- Peacemaking?".
- catalog extent "xvi, 368 p., [12] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0297841246".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson,".
- catalog subject "940.3".
- catalog subject "D511 .P355 1998".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue : Dover, 3 August 1914 -- Widening the war -- Paris, Athens, Rome -- 'If we lose Egypt, we lose the war' -- Orgies of slaughter -- A victory while you wait -- Associated power -- A bull amid the camels -- Jerusalem before Christmas -- Caporetto and after -- Plans for peace and for war -- The Emperor's battle -- Outlying theatres -- The flowing tide -- Balkan express -- Roads to Damascus -- 'Every day lost ... ' -- Mudros, Padua, Belgrade -- 'Hostilities will cease at 11 a.m.' -- Peacemaking?".
- catalog title "Victory 1918 / Alan Palmer.".
- catalog type "text".