The Desert Mounted Corps
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Military history readers of World War I, especially those interested in the Middle Eastern theater and cavalry warfare
- Military enthusiasts wanting practical detail on marching, supply and reconnaissance in desert conditions
- Readers of English historical texts hoping to build long-form English reading skills through campaign narrative
- Writers and researchers of war history using it as supporting material from an eyewitness perspective
Not a good fit for
- General readers without WWI background seeking a light introduction to military history
- Readers expecting strategic analysis or broad political argument; the book focuses on unit operations
- Readers impatient with military terminology and dense proper names
Reading tips
- Before reading, consult a brief chronology of the WWI Middle Eastern theater to establish a timeline and campaign framework
- Keep maps at hand and mark march routes and battle sites as you read to ease the burden of proper names
- Read in sections by campaign or phase, and after each section summarize the unit actions and outcomes in a few sentences
- When unit designations become dense, skip them at first and follow the main narrative; check details on a second pass
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
R. M. P. Preston (Richard Martin Peter Preston, 1884–196), a British soldier and author of military history. Public information about him is limited, and many details of his life remain unknown; the only work of his that can be confirmed is The Desert Mounted Corps. The book concerns the Desert Mounted Corps, which fought in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine during the First World War, and records the marches, operations and logistics of this formation, made up of Australian, New Zealand and British cavalry and camel units. It is a campaign and unit history. Drawing on personal experience and unit records, Preston's writing follows a chronological order and pays close attention to operational detail; his style is plain and restrained, with little personal emotion, and the book is therefore often used as reference material by readers and researchers of the Middle Eastern front in the First World War. Because his output is limited to a single work of limited circulation, he is not a widely known author in military history, yet his account offers a concrete first-hand perspective on the activities of the Desert Mounted Corps.
