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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89081845935?urlappend=%3Bseq=255 ''The Escaping Club'': "Part II"] [page 241] by A. J. Evans 1922 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, a POW had escaped from Germany in June 1917. In March 1918, while on a bombing raid in Palestine his plane came down. He was captured by Arabs, along with two others, and subsequently became prisoners of the Turks. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/241506 pdf download], Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/inbrigandshandst00forduoft ''In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons, 1914-1918''] by A Forder 1920 Archive.org The author was an American missionary who was taken prisoner in Jerusalem in November 1914 and jailed by the military He was a prisoner in Damascus for four years until the British occupation.
*[https://archive.org/details/turkishprisoners00ininte ''Turkish prisoners in Egypt: a report by the delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross''] extracted and translated from the official reports of the Red Cross Society 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811458 ''With the Turks in Palestine''] by Alexander Aaronsohn 1916. Also an [https://archive.org/details/withturkspalestine_1301_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org
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