Download or read book The Modern Crusaders written by R. E. C. Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1920. The 231st Infantry Brigade, with which this diary is chiefly concerned, came into extence in January 1917, at a time when its compoent parts were engaged in the campaign against the Senussi, distributed in the Western Desert of Egypt and the Oases, from Sollum to Dakhala. The diary opens on October 1st 1917, when the preparations for the simultaneous attacks on Beersheba and Gaza were nearing completion.