UID:
edocfu_9959244650002883
Format:
1 online resource (322 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-92253-X
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9786612922534
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1-4422-0550-4
Content:
This book tells the little-known stories of Jewish soldiers who served in the Jewish Legions during World War I. Three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, the book follows their journey at sea through unrestricted submarine warfare; by trains and trucks through Europe, Egypt, and Palestine; and their battlefield experiences. The authors show how these Yiddish-speaking young men forged a new kind of soldi
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; 2; Leaving Home; 3; In Distant Lands; 4; To the Front; 5; On Bravery; 6; Hope and Disenchantment; 7; The Chaplain; 8; An Aristocrat of Sorts; 9; Memory and Identity; 10; A Soldier Left Behind; 11; Existential Zionism; Notes; Bibliography
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7425-5275-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7425-5274-8
Language:
English
