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Description: First Edition, First Issue of the text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of General Allenby, signed in the plate, and a profusion of colour maps, 56 in all. 4to, publishers original tan wrappers, lettered in black on the upper cover and on the burnt-orange linen spine. [iv], 112 pp. A very well preserved copy, handsome with some light wear to the wrappers, a light bit of foxing to the end-leaves as usual, the text-block clean throughout, all maps in fine order. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, THE TRUE CAIRO PRINTING FOR THE PALESTINE NEWS. A core text for understanding the modern Middle East and the fall of Ottoman dominion over the land. This primary document gives a largely day-by-day progression of the events between July 1917 and October 1918 that led up to the Arab revolt against the Ottoman rule in Arabia, the defeat of the Ottoman Turks and ultimately, the fall of Damascus. This important work is one of the very best documents for understanding the conflict and the subsequent agreements settling the affairs of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan and greater Arabia at the end of the First World War. Included are two pieces by T.E. Lawrence, the famous "Lawrence of Arabia" and arguably, the most important of all the individuals involved with leading the revolt (see Seven Pillars of Wisdom). The two articles compiled from Lawrence's own writing concern the 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and the 'Story of the Arab Movement' that accompany plates 49-50 and 51-53 (concerning the Arab Revolt and the fall of Damascus), as well as various military reports and numerous maps marking the daily positions of the troops as the final showdown grew nearer. This document was created so that "members of the Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they have played a part" [preface]. This is one of the earliest accounts of that campaign, its details being still "fresh in the memory." A fascinating and comprehensive record. Much of what is covered in the text is important in the establishment of the modern Middle East, including Israeli statehood and the various events leading up to it: the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate.
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Description: First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps, printed in color. 1 vols. 4to. Official history of the British campaign in Palestine and Syria, leading to the capture of Jerusalem and Damascus. T.E. Lawrence's contributions to this volume, reporting on the "Sherifian Co-operation" and the progress of the Arab Revolt, appear at the text accompanying plates 49 to 53 at the back of the volume. They are derived from material printed in the Arab Bulletin. In the uncommon cloth issue, this copy with presentation slip (signed by Palestine News editor P.S. Taylor) to Lieutenant Colonel Angus Cameron (1871-1961), officer and colonial governor, seconded to the Egyptian Army in 1899 and who had served as governor of the Mogalla, Kassala, and Sennar provinces in the Sudan from 1906.During the Great War he served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Western Desert, in the campaign against the Senussi Arabs. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel in June 1919. After the war he returned as governor of the Sennar province of the Sudan. O'Brien A011 ("a few copies bound in sand coloured cloth") Original sand cloth printed in black. Collaborator's copy with duplicated slip tipped to front flyleaf. Near fine copy Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps, printed in color. 1 vols. 4to
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