Soldiers' Tales: Two Palestinian Jewish Soldiers in the Ottoman Army During the First World War

by Glenda Abramson

Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western Anatolia with the labor battalions during World War I. They kept detailed notes of their dreadful experiences which they later extended into complete narratives. Both diaries were discovered only recently and both appear here for the first time in this English translation. In addition to the translation of the diaries,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853039569
• ISBN13: 9780853039563
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"