We Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War

by Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren

Book Overview

This book tells the little-known stories of Jewish soldiers who served in the Jewish Legions during World War I. Three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, the book follows their journey at sea through unrestricted submarine warfare; by trains and trucks through Europe, Egypt,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742552748
• ISBN13: 9780742552746
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"