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Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western Anatolia with the labour battalions. They kept detailed notes of their experiences which they later extended into complete narratives. Both diaries were only recently discovered and both appear in English translation here for the first time. In addition to her translation of the diaries, Glenda Abramson has provided a detailed introduction which describes life in the Jewish settlement in Palestine during the war under the autocratic rule of Jemal Pasha, the Governor of Syria and Palestine. The book also provides an insight into the Ottoman army in the Middle East, seen through the two diaries and also referring to unpublished letters of Yehuda Burla, another Palestinian Jewish conscript who later became a well-known Hebrew author.