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With the Turks in Palestine
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Title: With the Turks in Palestine
Author: Alexander Aaronsohn
Release Date: November 30, 2003 [EBook #10338]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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WITH THE TURKS IN PALESTINE
BY
ALEXANDER AARONSOHN
[ILLUSTRATION: DJEMAL PASHA]
1916
TO MY MOTHER
WHO LIVED AND FOUGHT AND DIED FOR A REGENERATED PALESTINE
_What have I done, or tried, or said In thanks to that dear woman dead_?
MASEFIELD
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
To the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, to the publishers, and to the many friends who have encouraged me, I am and shall ever remain grateful
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. ZICRON-JACOB
II. PRESSED INTO THE SERVICE
III. THE GERMAN PROPAGANDA
IV. ROAD-MAKING AND DISCHARGE
V. THE HIDDEN ARMS
VI. THE SUEZ CAMPAIGN
VII. FIGHTING THE LOCUSTS
VIII. THE LEBANON
IX. A ROBBER BARON OF PALESTINE
X. A RASH ADVENTURE
XI. ESCAPE
ILLUSTRATIONS
DJEMAL PASHA Photograph by Underwood & Underwood
SAFFÊD