In giving us this interesting look at the campaign and the men who fought it, Kitchen makes an excellent contribution to the literature of the Great War.

NYMAS

This detailed book enriches our knowledge about cultural, social and military aspects of the war in Palestine and is a welcome addition to the scholarly bookshelf about this campaign

Yigal Sheffy, Tel-Hai College, Israel, Journal of Military History

A timely and much needed addition to the historiography of the First World War ... For both scholars of the First World War and those interested in the civilian-solider at war in the twentieth century, this book is well worth reading

Justin Fantauzzo, University of Cambridge, UK, War in History

[Kitchen's book is] a breakthrough work regarding the imperial soldiers' experience of war outside Western Europe ... His comparative framework for studying the morale of the different types of military units is outstanding, and he deserves credit for fusing battlefield history with cultural studies.

Kaushik Roy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

By focusing on morale and military identity among the soldiers that made up the polyglot and
cosmopolitan expeditionary force, Kitchen takes his readers far beyond a mere campaign history
with a traditional focus on the leadership of Generals Archibald Murray and Edmund Allenby … Kitchen's meticulously researched book makes extensive use of primary source materials ranging from contemporary soldiers' letters and official (and unofficial) documentation to postwar memoirs and oral historiography.

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Journal of Palestine Studies

This is a deeply researched work, which makes a major contribution to the literature.

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