-Material with acute relevance to the crisis now tearing Iraq to pieces---Independent
-Rutledge's account displays a novelist's taste for intrigue, espionage, gunboat diplomacy, personal hardship and murder.---BBC History Magazine
- A] rare treasure that combines a fascinating account of important historical events with penetrating geopolitical analysis---Professor Michael Klare, Hampshire College, Amherst
In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge...
-Material with acute relevance to the crisis now tearing Iraq to pieces---Independent
-Rutledge's account displays a novelist's taste ...