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David and his friends grow to manhood in the trenches, fighting first in the Zion Mule Corps and later with Zev Jabotinsky s dream unit, the Jewish Legion. Fighting from the Jerusalem Hills to Es-Salt, and from Es-Salt to Um Es-Shert near the Dead Sea, the Jewish Legion makes a significant contribution to General Allenby s successful drive to expel the Turks from Palestine. This eminently readable historical novel takes us on a journey to the dawning of the modern State of Israel, leading up to the days of the British Mandate for Palestine. Narrated with humor, gripping battle scenes, and a touching love story, Of Guns and Mules makes the history of pre-state Israel come alive. 1914: The Ottoman Turks rule the Holy Land; the French and British are determined to wrest control from the Empire. Enter the Zion Mule Corps – the first organized Jewish army unit since the Maccabees. They fought the Turks at Gallipoli under the command of Irishman Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson, but when ordered to help put down anti-British riots in Ireland, they refused…some may have called them 'terrorists' but these soldiers didn't target civilians. The great contributions made by these soldiers have been lost to time. They are no longer with us to tell their stories, the subject is not taught in schools and much of the historical record is not in English, said author, teacher and historian David Young. Many of Israel's military and civilian leaders first cut their teeth as soldiers in the Zion Mule Corps and the Legion. Among them, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, as well as Nehemia Rabin, the father of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated in 1995, he continued. In his fourth historical novel, the first to be published by Gefen Publishing House of Jerusalem, Young tries to make younger generations aware of this important period in Israeli history. An 18 year-old boy in love, fighting for his country from Gallipoli to the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea to British-ruled Palestine is a character I feel people can really connect with, young and old alike. Dissolved by the War Office for not fighting the Irish, the Zion Mule Corps was reestablished as the Jewish Legion out of a desperate need by the British for fresh troops. Now a part of General Allenby's forces, their goal was to drive the Turks out of the Holy Land, but at the end of the war they found themselves as part of a police force in the new British-ruled Mandate of Palestine – fighting against their own people. 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