“During the last six weeks of this drive the cavalry advanced with such speed that the Turks didn't have a chance to dig into any more trenches, and from then on the fighting was all on the surface of the ground. These Anzac machine gunners trapped the retreating Turkish columns in the narrow valleys, and the roads north were lined for miles and miles with thousands of bodies of Turks and their animals. After Allenby's men had freed all of northern Palestine, including the land of Samaria, and the country around the Sea of Galilee, we see the Indians making their way north along the coast toward Beyruth and Tripoli. In the interior we find the Anzacs threading their way through the hills toward the oldest standing city in the world — Damascus."
-Lowell Thomas
“With Lawrence in Arabia” (1919)
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