The War with the Ottoman Empire: Volume 2: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

Grey's discussion of AIF and NZEF troops in Cairo, for instance, briefly tackles prostitution, the importing of liquor, and Australian "antipathy towards the people and the country" which produced riots (31-4), but Grey limits this discussion to the command's campaign against suc...

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Published inInternational Journal of Turkish Studies Vol. 23; no. 1/2; pp. 126 - 128
Main Author Fahrenthold, Stacy D
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Madison International Journal of Turkish Studies 01.01.2017
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Australian history
Historians
Historiography
Military history
Theater
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Summary:Grey's discussion of AIF and NZEF troops in Cairo, for instance, briefly tackles prostitution, the importing of liquor, and Australian "antipathy towards the people and the country" which produced riots (31-4), but Grey limits this discussion to the command's campaign against such transgressions. The author is critical of both the sensationalism and the apologetics that often appear in official military histories, but this book self-consciously limits its scope to the Australian perspective, even where eliding the Ottoman (or Egyptian, or Arab) voice might be warranted. The book is sweeping in its narrative and challenging in its presentation of the Australian military not as a unit, but as an entire social universe. Because it sits entirely within the tradition of Australian military history, it will simultaneously challenge and frustrate the Ottoman historian.
ISSN:0272-7919