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Article: BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN 1914-1918.
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- The Middle East
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- December 1, 1998
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BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN 1914-1918
By Yigal Sheffy, published by Frank Cass ISBN 0 7146 4677 6 Price 45.00 [pounds sterling] hardback ISBN 0 7146 4368 8 Price 22.50 [pounds sterling] paperback
Shortly after the end of the First World war, General Sir George Macdonagh, wartime British director of Military Intelligence, revealed that Lord Allenby's victory in Palestine had been certain because all his opponent's cards were known to him; he was consequently able to play his own hand with perfect assurance. Seventy-five years later this book ...