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this is going to swing the entire war in favor of the british. but more importantly, when he gets to cairo, a new british commander in chief has taken over, allenby. general allenby was not a typical british general of the time. he didn t come from a family of generals. he was an aggressive cavalry officer. he commanded great personal loyalty because of his integrity, his courage. he had a tremendous vision and perhaps the static claustrophobic trench warfare did not suit his mind. but as a cavalryman, he could kind of envision how to utilize his cavalry units as well as the british camel corps. at the same time allen bee arrives in the middle east, there are major changes in ottoman-controlled jerusalem. the occupation of aqaba by the forces of faisal was a panic moment for the germans because
Let us begin at the ending, where I tell you that the final page of this book is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read.
I’m not going to quote it here, because spoilers, but I want you to come into this essay knowing that if you read this book, and I hope you do, the ending will most likely make you cry, both because of the content and the sheer gorgeous writing. Téa Obreht’s Inland, a follow-up to her instant-classic
The Tiger’s Wife, is a haunted Western. A frontier ghost story, it focuses on the kinds of people who don’t often get to star in tales of the Old West. It’s a funny, weird book, that has often, over the last few weeks, jumped into the front of my brain and demanded attention.
A definitive ranking of the US military’s worst animal projects Caitlin O Brien March 9 Spc. Beruk Nessibu mounts Kyle, the camel, Dec. 19, to enjoy his very first camel ride at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. (SFC Debra Richardson) Animal-human collaboration is an interesting facet of military history. The U.S. Navy has trained bottlenose dolphins and sea lions as part of its Marine Mammal Program. These slippery sea critters are able to locate mines and retrieve missing equipment more successfully than human divers, thanks to the dolphins’ sonar and sea lions’ eyesight. Forget robots these mammals might be the ultimate choice to replace us.