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Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt
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by Nicholas J. Saunders


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In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counter-insurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, and Bedouin warriors, and the dramatic events of the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. Ten years of research in this prehistoric terrain has revealed sites lost for almost 100 years: vast campsites occupied by railway builders; Ottoman Turkish machine-gun redoubts; Rolls Royce Armoured Car raiding camps; an ephemeral Royal Air Force desert aerodrome; as well as the actual site of the Hallat Ammar railway ambush. This unique and richly illustrated account from Nicholas
Saunders tells, in intimate detail, the story of a seminal episode of the First World War and the reshaping of the Middle East that followed.

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  • Title Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt
  • Author Nicholas J. Saunders
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2020-10-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780198722007 / 0198722001
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 7.3 x 1.1 in (24.89 x 18.54 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Arab World
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Archaeology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020934874
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.02

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Nicholas J Saunders, University of Bristol, Professor of Material Culture Nicholas Saunders is Professor of Material Culture in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol. His main research interests are the archaeology and anthropology of twentieth-century conflict, particularly landscape, material culture, and cultural memory. He is co-director of the 'Great Arab Revolt Project' in southern Jordan, and 'The So?a/Isonzo Valley 1915-1918: Conflict Landscapes on the Slovenian-Italian Border' project. He has worked extensively on the material culture of the First World War in Belgium and France. His books include 'Killing Time': Archaeology and the First World War (2007), The Poppy: A History of Conflict, Loss, Remembrance and Redemption (2014), and Modern Conflict and the Senses (2017).
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