DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939~1946. With Illustrations

Stark, Freya

Verlag: London. 1962. John Murray

Beschreibung

green & gilt decorative cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (corner clipped by publisher & new price added ~see photos). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 2nd printing. deckled foredge. 2 color illustrated title pg. xii+297p. b&w map. 18 glossy b&w photo illustrations. chronological table. index. world history. autobiography. memoirs. world war ii. middle east history. history of iraq. ~ This important book is an autobiography with a theme~the art of Persuasion, a word which, unlike Propaganda, has not yet lost its innocence. Equipped with a knowledge of Arabic and attached to the Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office for war service she found that Persuasion was her job. This book describes the remarkable way in which she carried it out. In Aden she assisted with the Arab News Service; in the Yemen she combated the Fascist influence operating the only cinema projector in the country; in Egypt she formed and expanded the Brotherhood of Freedom during the anxieties of the North Africa campaigns; in Iraq she extended the Brotherhood committees throughout the country in opposition to the German influence that so nearly proved fatal to the Allied position in the Middle East and was caught in the siege of the British Embassy in Baghdad during the German~inspired revolution. She continued her work in America, where the Zionist problem was poisoning Anglo~American relations, and in Canada. She travelled in India at the request of Lord Wavell at the time of the Simla Conference; and finally flew home to Italy, on the heels of the German retreat in the north. Freya Stark's genius for describing people and places and her stimulating sense of historical perspective turn an autobiography into a picture of heroic times. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3292005

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Titel: DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939~...

Verlag: London. 1962. John Murray

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag