LAWRENCE, T.E. (contrib.) | A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egypt Expeditionary Force, 1919

From the Library of Alan Milne

LAWRENCE, T.E. (CONTRIBUTOR)

A BRIEF RECORD OF THE ADVANCE OF THE EGYPTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL SIR EDMUND H.H. ALLENBY, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., JULY 1917 TO OCTOBER 1918. CAIRO: GOVERNMENT PRESS AND SURVEY OF EGYPT, 1919

4to, edited by Harry Pirie-Gordon, frontispiece portrait, 56 lithographic maps, original linen-backed printed wrappers, covers very darkened and slightly worn and creased, spine slightly worn and torn, some slight spotting

FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE VOLUME containing two unsigned reports written by Lawrence, probably extracted from official reports: "Sherifan Co-Operation in September" and "Story of the Arab Movement". Along with his reports in the Arab Bulletin and The Times, these are LAWRENCE'S FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE ARAB CAMPAIGN.

...The reigning representative of the senior line of the dynasty founded by the Emir Qatada succeeded to the throne of Mecca as the Emir Hussein in 1908, and so long as it was possible to reconcile his position as a vassal of the Sultan of Turkey with his dignity as an Arab Prince and head of the Ashraf, he remained a loyal subject of the Ottoman Empire, but at the beginning of the [Great] war the Turkish atrocities in Syria which came on top of the violent attempts at the Constantinople Government forcibly to Ottomanize all nationalities under its authority, made a revolt of the Arab nation against its oppressors inevitable...

(from one of Lawrence's contributions in this volume, "Story of the Arab Movement")

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