Hollow Victories

Amelia Caruthers and Marty Mintz, now both senior international correspondents, are assigned to follow the British drive to defeat the Ottomans in the Egypt-Palestine region. They do it on foot, trains, trucks, horses, and camels traversing the area to cover key battles, important political meetings and the advances and retreats of the armies locked in struggle for dominance of the area. They gain the trust of key commanders, and they are able to see important events up close, such as the meetings of Lawrence of Arabia with the bedouin allies of the British, the meetings of British General Allenby with Prince Faisal, and the conclave of British, French and Ottoman officials that ends the war in the East. The love-affair of Amelia and Mintz continues and must undergo a test of trust before it can be regarded as successful.