A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Hats in vivid detail

in vivid detail

the famed trench newspaper of the First World War

Returning to the United States the following spring

while the war diaries of the 9th Lancers and letters from individual soldiers tell the wartime story

A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Hats in vivid detailDescription by Leila Tarazi Fawaz Hardcover The Great War transformed the Middle East, bringing to an end four hundred years of Ottoman rule in Arab lands while giving rise to the Middle East as we know it today. A century later, the experiences of ordinary men and women during those calamitous years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of the civilians and