London, 1922.


CONTENTS

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Introduction[vii]
CHAPTER I.
The Balfour Declaration[13]
CHAPTER II.
The Sanballats[18]
CHAPTER III.
The Formation of the Jewish Regiment[23]
CHAPTER IV.
Training at Plymouth[30]
CHAPTER V.
The Kosher Problem[39]
CHAPTER VI.
We Set Out for Palestine[43]
CHAPTER VII.
Back in the Land of Bondage[51]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Feast of the Passover[62]
CHAPTER IX.
We Set Out for the Front[68]
CHAPTER X.
The Nablus Front[79]
CHAPTER XI.
We March to the Jordan Valley[91]
CHAPTER XII.
Our Position in the Mellahah[103]
CHAPTER XIII.
Life in the Mellahah[111]
CHAPTER XIV.
We Win Our First Honours[118]
CHAPTER XV.
Capture of the Umm esh Shert Ford[125]
CHAPTER XVI.
The Lost Transport Wagons[131]
CHAPTER XVII.
We Go up to Ramoth Gilead[137]
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Crown of Victory[144]
CHAPTER XIX.
The Strategical Value of Palestine[150]
CHAPTER XX.
Hospital Scandal at Jerusalem[157]
CHAPTER XXI.
Life at Ludd[167]
CHAPTER XXII.
At Rafa[173]
CHAPTER XXIII.
Return of the Anzacs[179]
CHAPTER XXIV.
A Red-Letter Day[185]
CHAPTER XXV.
Jewish Soldiers are Forbidden to Enter the Holy City[193]
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Great Boxing Competition[199]
CHAPTER XXVII.
Bir Salem—An Exciting Race[204]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Damascus[211]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Among the Philistines[219]
CHAPTER XXX.
The Fall of Goliath[227]
CHAPTER XXXI.
Protests[230]
CHAPTER XXXII.
A Trip to the Sea of Galilee[239]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Strange Methods of the E. E. F. Staff[249]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The First Judæans[259]
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Jerusalem Pogrom[262]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
The Dawn[274]
Appendices[277]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O.[Frontispiece]
"I Had an Able and Enthusiastic Staff"Facing page [34]
Lieut. Vladimir Jabotinsky[44]
The Rev. L. A. Falk[46]
Jerusalem[62]
The Battalion on Parade[64]
Tomb of Rachel, near Bethlehem[64]
Choir of the Jewish Regiment[70]
The Wailing Wall at Jerusalem[92]
The Jerusalem-Jericho Road[96]
Near the Wadi Kelt[96]
The Auja ("A pleasant, swiftly flowing streamlet")[140]
Es Salt (The Ancient Ramoth Gilead)[140]
Roman Arch at Amman[144]
In the Old Citadel at Amman[144]
Part of the Great Amphitheatre at Amman[146]
Circassian Cart at Amman[146]
"Here the Tents of Israel were Pitched"[174]
Group of Officers at Rafa[180]
Ruins of Baalbek[210]
My Charger Betty[210]
Ruins of the Old City of Tiberias[244]