Hell in the Holy Land Home Goods World War I meant territorial

World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific

but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings--which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead--to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed

the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times

The bitter four-month struggle that ensued—known as the Hundred Days Campaign—saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War

the Argonne

Hell in the Holy Land Home Goods World War I meant territorialDescription by David R. Woodward Hardcover In the modern popular imagination, the British Army's campaign in the Middle East during World War I is considered somehow less brutal than the fighting on European battlefields. A romantic view of this conflict has been further encouraged by such films as Lawrence of Arabia and The Light Horsemen. In Hell in the Holy Land, David R. Woodward uses graphic eyewitness accounts from the diaries, letters, and