The Battle of the Pyramids, Gallipoli, Beersheba, Tobruk, El Alamein. Great battles of the modern period which shaped the destiny of the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand - and the world. But there was another dimension to the military strategies of Napoleon, Allenby, Chauvel, Rommel and Montgomery.

Kelvin Crombie reveals how the Anzacs played a significant part in defeating the Turkish Empire in World War One, thereby providing the Jewish people the possibility of returning to their land after 1800 years of national dispersion. And during World War Two he reveals how the Anzac soldiers helped safeguard the 500,000 Jewish people in Palestine from the Nazi threat by defeating the German-Italian forces.