(London: Cassell and Co, 1931).

FIRST EDITION. WITH A FOREWORD BY BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR PERCY SYKES. This book is profusely illustrated and researched. The conflicts discussed are as today, from the Middle East through Persia and the Caucasus and Afghanistan. And the players too are much the same, the leaders and tribes, the nationalists and the original dwellers of the lands. Item #28214

First edition With 48 half-tone plates. 8vo, publisher s blue green cloth with black lettering on the spine. xxvi, 302 An essentially fine copy. Bright and clean with only minimal evidence of light typical foxing to the edges. A crisp, clean and tight copy.