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by Stuart Hadaway.
Softcover (7.25×9.75 inches). 96 pages. 2025.
Subtitle: The Fight for the Suez Canal
The usual Campaign format is followed with a chronology; evaluations of commanders, forces, and plans; the actual campaign; the aftermath; and the battlefield today.
Under German control, the Ottomans pulled off a nice logistical feat of supplying an army through the desert and into Egypt. The attack was well planned and proceeded apace until it didn’t. Both sides made over-reaches and paid for them, but the British eventually came out on top as the Germans created a line in southern Gaza. That line repulsed two British attacks. Only after Gallipoli failed were enough troops sent to Egypt for an offensive — and even then many divisions were sent to the Western Front in France.
The booklet contains 63 black and white photos, four color photos, two color illustrations, six color maps, three color two-page action illustrations, and three color 3D maps.
Campaign volumes offer excellent overviews and this one is no different. I found this volume interesting because I knew little about the opening drive on the Suez Canal by the Ottomans, the resulting British counter-attack, the Ottoman counter-counter-attack, and the British drive to Gaza.
Enjoyed it.
— Reviewed by Russ Lockwood
