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. Compiled from Official Sources.
London: Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1919.
Price: $250.00
About the item
Second Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps, printed in color. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray printed wrappers. Some soiling, some chipping to spine else very good. O’Brien A012.
Item #6745
“This book contains the order of battle and the campaign maps for the Near Eastern front of which Lawrence’s Arab campaign was a part. There are two pieces of the text written by Lawrence. This book is not always recognised as containing Lawrence’s work, as the pieces are unsigned. The two pieces in question appear to have been extracted from official reports. These, along with the reports in the Arab Bulletin and in The Times, are his first published accounts of the Arab campaign.” (O’Brien p. 18) Lawrence’s contributions appear on the versos of plates 48-49: “Sherifian Co-operation in September,” and the versos of plates 50-52: “Story of the Arab Movement.”.
