Townshend, Charles
Title |
Desert Hell. The British Invasion of Mesopotamia |
Date |
Cambridge, Massachusetts 2010 |
Publisher |
The Belknap Press of Harvard University |
Description
First US Edition. First published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber Ltd., 2010, as 'When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921'. Publisher's white paper covered boards with black quarter cloth, red-bronze lettering to spine and crimson endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the illustrated dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [i-vii] ix-xxiv, 592 [8], with three maps and eight pages of photographs.
Condition
A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.