Sands of Sirocco (The Windswept Saga #2)

Preface

The only glimmer of hope that the British have is in the Palestinian campaign.

General Edmund Allenby has successfully battled his way up the Palestinian coast and is at the gates of Jerusalem.

Victory there is seen by the British government as a potential Christmas present to hopeless troops and an opportunity to decisively smash the remaining Turkish resistance.

This explosive information has the potential to make already strained diplomatic relationships with their French and Arabian allies a powder keg.

The published Balfour Declaration has already ignited the ire of Muslim nationalists in the region, who see the British as displaying the imperialism they had hoped to escape.

But the British have a larger goal in that region, one that has been intrinsic to their presence there since the beginning of the war and one which trumps all their other promises: finding and dominating the rumored oil fields which could help them win the war.