A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Hats The saga of McCrae’s Battalion

The saga of McCrae’s Battalion brings much-needed human scale to World War I and explains why a group of young men from a small country with almost no direct connection to the conflict would give up their careers

Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after 1918

while the war diaries of the 9th Lancers and letters from individual soldiers tell the wartime story

Fox Conner presents the portrait of the quintessential man behind the scenes in U

When the First World War broke out

A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Hats The saga of McCrae’s BattalionDescription by Leila Tarazi Fawaz Hardcover The Great War transformed the Middle East, bringing to an end four hundred years of Ottoman rule in Arab lands while giving rise to the Middle East as we know it today. A century later, the experiences of ordinary men and women during those calamitous years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of the civilians and