Nuri As-Said - A Study in Arab Leadership

Lord Birdwood

Verlag: Cassell (1959), London, 1959

Beschreibung

No signatures. Some foxing to page edges. Some adhesive tape stains to endpapers and to dust-jacket flaps. Some 5mm chips at head of dust-jacket spine and top corners of dust-jacket. Vertical crease to front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xi, [2 (double-page map)], 306 pages + frontispiece + 15 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. 4 other maps within the pagination. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. Biography. "The tragic death of the young King Feisal of Iraq and of his Prime Minister, Nuri as-Said, in the revolution of July, 1958, made the name of Iraq's leading statesman a household word overnight. Already known as a firm friend to Britain and as one of the architects of the Baghdad Pact, he was responsible for Iraq's uncompromising resistance to the wiles of Egyptian propaganda. Little, however, is generally known of his early life, and Lord Birdwood, in his biography of this truly great man, has traced his rise to power against the background of the whole Middle East question." - from dust-jacket blurb. Chapters include: The Desert Campaign, 1916-17; The Encirclement of Deraa, 1918; Damascus and the End of the War; The Peace Conference, 1919, and Anglo-French Conflict; War and Peace as viewed from Baghdad; The Era of Treaties; Rashid Ali and the Three Weeks' War; Egypt and the War of Words; Iraq and Jordan answer the United Arab Republic; Epilogue: Revolution and Assassination; Glossary of Arabic Words. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22493

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nuri As-Said - A Study in Arab Leadership

Verlag: Cassell (1959), London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1959

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good-

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-

Auflage: First Edition.