The Desert Column: The Classic Account Of The Palestine And Sinai Campaigns
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few firsthand accounts of the First World War capture the raw heat, dust, and brutal endurance of mounted desert warfare with the visceral immediacy of The Desert Column. Ion L. Idriess, a Light Horseman who rode and fought through the scorching wastes of Sinai and into the blood-soaked campaigns of Palestine, chronicles his experiences in diary form — a relentless, day-by-day testament to courage, thirst, and survival on one of the war's most overlooked fronts. Written with the unvarnished directness of a man who lived every word, this classic work stands as one of Australia's most celebrated pieces of military literature, illuminating the legendary charge at Beersheba and the broader campaign that ultimately broke Ottoman power in the Middle East. Idriess writes not as a distant historian but as a soldier still caked in desert grit, his prose alive with the sounds of hooves, rifle fire, and dying men — a narrative that transforms personal memoir into a sweeping portrait of an army forged in extremity. For anyone who wishes to understand what it truly meant to serve in the Light Horse, this account remains utterly indispensable.
Author: Ion L. Idriess
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few firsthand accounts of the First World War capture the raw heat, dust, and brutal endurance of mounted desert warfare with the visceral immediacy of The Desert Column. Ion L. Idriess, a Light Horseman who rode and fought through the scorching wastes of Sinai and into the blood-soaked campaigns of Palestine, chronicles his experiences in diary form — a relentless, day-by-day testament to courage, thirst, and survival on one of the war's most overlooked fronts. Written with the unvarnished directness of a man who lived every word, this classic work stands as one of Australia's most celebrated pieces of military literature, illuminating the legendary charge at Beersheba and the broader campaign that ultimately broke Ottoman power in the Middle East. Idriess writes not as a distant historian but as a soldier still caked in desert grit, his prose alive with the sounds of hooves, rifle fire, and dying men — a narrative that transforms personal memoir into a sweeping portrait of an army forged in extremity. For anyone who wishes to understand what it truly meant to serve in the Light Horse, this account remains utterly indispensable.