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  • Above and beyond Palestine (Annotated)

    An account of the work of the East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron, 1916-1918

    by C E Hughes, Ian M Burns ...
    "The work of the East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron was very seldom mentioned in published official reports and its record is accordingly very little known, yet without its story the familiar one of the campaign in Palestine and Syria is incomplete."A unique first-hand account of the East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron during the First World War by its intelligence officer. Through ... Read more

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  • In the Service of the Sultan

    A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency

    by Ian Gardiner ...
    A memoir of how a small number of British officers led Muslim soldiers in the hard-fought anti-insurgency war that has shaped today's Gulf.While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: The Sultanate of Oman stood guard at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controlled the movement of oil from that region. ... Read more

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  • Morocco That Was

    by Walter Harris ...
    Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. Harris was an intimate of at least ... Read more

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  • Lawrence Of Arabia

    by B. H. Hart ...
    T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields -- as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier -- and he worked throughout World War I and after in the Middle East in efforts to promote independent Arab states. His autobiography Seven ... Read more

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  • Revolt In The Desert [Illustrated Edition]

    by Colonel T. E. Lawrence ...
    [World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- Includes 92 photos and illustrations with 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918]Lieutenant-Colonel T. E. Lawrence has often been pictured as many differing characters; crank, madman, genius, visionary, man "gone native", pawn, military leader, highly strung, sensitive, arrogant. In fact even in his own writings he is a multi-faceted man of ... Read more

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  • Long Range Desert Group

    Behind Enemy Lines in North Africa

    by W. B. Kennedy Shaw ...
    A "moving, exciting and authentic" chronicle of the British Army's legendary recon and raiding unit in the desert of North African during WWII ( The Observer).During its two-and-a-half years fighting in North Africa, from 1940 to 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the desert. This small, highly mobile force made a name for itself through daring exploits and vital ... Read more

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  • In Rommel's Backyard

    A memoir of the Long Range Desert Group

    by Andrew Gibson-Watt, Alistair Timpson ...
    This WWII journal takes readers inside an elite reconnaissance and raiding unit operating behind enemy lines in the North African campaign.As a young man entering the maelstrom of World War II, Alastair Timpson had the good fortune to find his way into the most romantic of special force units, the Long Range Desert Group. In Rommel's Backyard describes the various roles of the LRDG, all of which ... Read more

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  • Libyan Sands

    Travel in a Dead World

    by R.A. Bagnold ...
    In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in Egypt began to explore the Western Desert which straddles the borders with Libya and the Sudan. Adapting a series of Model T Fords, Bagnold and his colleagues set out across territory hitherto traversed only by camel caravans. They mapped new routes across 'impassable' sand seas, in 'regions untrodden by man since the Stone Age'. They ... Read more

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  • Sultan in Oman

    by Jan Morris ...
    In 1955 the winds of change were beginning to blow across the Sultanate of Oman, a hitherto truly medieval state. Rumours of subversion mingled with the unsettling smell of oil to propel the Sultan on a royal progress across the desert hinterland, from his southern capital of Salala to the northern capital of Muscat. It was an historic journey – the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar. ... Read more

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  • Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks

    The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman

    Edited by Tony Spackman ...
    This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackmans extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender of the 10,000 strong garrison in April 1916, the hardships of the 1,000 mile forced march to Anatolia in ... Read more

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  • Light Car Patrols 1916-19

    War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford

    by Claud Williams ...
    Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, firsthand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the Kufra Reconnaissance Scheme. Lavishly illustrated with ... Read more

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  • Under The Red Crescent – Plevna 1877

    by Charles C Ryan, John Sandes ...
    In "Under The Red Crescent, Plevna 1877," readers are transported to the heart of one of the most pivotal moments in European history. Set against the backdrop of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, this gripping narrative chronicles the epic struggle for the Bulgarian town of Plevna.As the Russian Empire seeks to expand its influence in the Balkans and challenge Ottoman dominance, the small ... Read more

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