A century on from the Battle of Beersheba

Alasdair McDonald
Updated September 13 2017 - 3:11pm, first published 11:06am

Today Beersheba, is a city of over 200,000 people, with the highest number of chess grandmasters per capita in the world. A century ago it was a heavily fortified town 43 kilometres from the Ottoman Turkish bastion of Gaza, in Palestine.

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