17 JANUARY 1920, Page 23

With Our Army in Palestine. By Antony Bluett. (Melrose. fis

6d. net.)—This readable book by an ex-gunner describes the Palestine campaign from the first advance beyond the Canal to the final battle and pursuit of the routed Turks, The author does not throw any new light on the first battle of Gaza ; he attributes the retirement to the lack of supplies and the approach of heavy Turkish reinforcements. He thinks that the Turks had a superiority of numbers in the third battle of Gaza, and he says that they fought desperately. Mr. Bluett makes no attempt to write a military history, but his descriptions of the battle- fields and of the difficulties of transport supplement in a useful way the more formal accounts of a very remarkable campaign. The book is illustrated with photographs.