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| | Reader's Companion to Military History - - Allenby, Edmund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | On the Western Front, Allenby became commander of the Third Army in 1915 and directed the ill-fated Gommecourt diversion at the Somme on July 1, 1916. |
 | | Allenby was lucky to be sent to Palestine, where he had room to maneuver with cavalry, twice as many troops as the enemy, air superiority, and good logistics. |
 | | Yet Allenby remains enigmatic—a failure in France, successful in the Middle East—capable of furious rages but a humanist who was well read, a student of nature, and a keen historian of the Crusades. |
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