(ALLENBY, GENERAL SIR EDMUND H[enry] H[ynman]). A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

The Government Press and Survey of Egypt

London

1919

Second edition. Edited by H. Pirie-Gordon. Frontispiece portrait of Allenby

General Allenby commanded the Allied forces which in 1917-18 defeated the Turks in Palestine. Most moving in this record of the Campaign is the description of the liberation of Jerusalem by the British on December 8th, 1917: “After four centuries of conquest, the Turk was ridding the land of his presence, and a great enthusiasm arose among the Jews. There was a running to and fro; daughters called to their fathers and brothers concealed in outhouses, cellars, and attics…’The Turks are running,’ they called; ‘the day of deliverance is come’…It was fitting that the flight of the Turks should have coincided with the national festival of the Hanukah, which commemorates the recapture of the Temple from the heathen Seleucids by Judas Maccabaeus in 165 BCE” (Facing Plate 26)