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Forgotten Conscripts - Prelude to Palestine's Struggle for Survival (Paperback)
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Forgotten Conscripts - Prelude to Palestine's Struggle for Survival (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 600
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Forgotten Conscripts: Prelude to Palestine's Struggle for Survival
is a book of two parts. The first part is an outline of the events
and circumstances leading to a savage conflict that raged from 1945
to 1948. The author was posted to Palestine in 1947. When the
British withdrew in 1948 they left 784 British troops in two
military cemeteries. He was one of many thousands of
eighteen-year-old post war conscripts sent to replace those who had
served there during the war years. The Palestine conflict was
seemingly forgotten, it was never listed with other post war
conflicts and no memorial existed for the dead, yet for over fifty
years it was seldom out of the news. In 1998 the veterans formed an
association, paid for and erected a memorial. Eric Lowe researched
the history of the Palestine-Israeli dispute and collated
sufficient information to provide readers with an outline of the
events leading up to 1945. The taking of Palestine from the Turks
in 1917 had brought closer the dream of a homeland for European
Jews.
The main part of the book deals with the last three years of the
Mandate and covers the atrocities that created ripples- the
explosion that killed 91 people including 63 civilians and caused a
change in strategy- a double murder that shocked the world, created
a storm in Parliament, caused riots in Britain and saw one
newspaper editor in court for seditious libel. During the
withdrawal a colonel, a war hero, was tempted to sell weapons to
the enemy and two sergeants sold two stolen tanks. Forgotten
Conscripts is rich with personal memories and experiences of
Palestine camp life and the friendly population.
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