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8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. xv + [i] + 345 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge wear, including at head and tail of spine and light soiling of rear wrapper. Slight wear to extremities and occasional foxing, including fore edge; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, 2 maps and by genealogical table. An account, based on his letters and diaries, of the career of Owen Meredith Tweedy (1888-1906). Irish born, he first served as a soldier and then as Assistant Oriental Secretary on General Allenby's staff in Cairo, political journalist, Press Officer to the Palestine Government (1936), Principal Information Officer Middle East, 1941-44 and as Adviser Middle East Relations to BOAC. With a Foreword by Cecil Woodham Smith and a tribute by Freya Stark who worked with him.