Letters From Baghdad

✍ Scribed by Bell, Gertrude

• Book ID: 109760408
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Non-Fiction 1927

Summary:

Gertrude Bell was a pioneering English writer, archaeologist, diplomat and spy whose travels through the Arabian desert gave her local knowledge unparalleled by her British peers. Recruited by British Military Intelligence after World War I, she played a significant often unrecognised role in British imperial policy-making in the Middle East, notably Iraq. Openly critical of colonial practices, Bell's insights are a singular, prescient prism through which to understand both the Middle East and the all-male inner sanctum of British colonial power.