Table of Contents

Foreword, Introduction, list of illustrations, 18 chapters, Appendix, Chapter notes, select bibliography, Index

About the Author

HVF Winstone is the biographer of such renowned Arabian travellers as Gertrude Bell, Captain SHakespear and Colonel Leachman, and Lady Anne Blunt, as well as Sir Leonard Woolley, the archaeologist of biblical Ur. He has written a major political study of Britain in the Near East, The Illicit Adventure, and a panorama of archaeology, Uncovering the Ancient World. In his 80th year, he is writing a polemical history of the Anglo-American involvemenmt in the Middle East, War Without End.

Reviews

"It is an objective and meticulously researched account of the life of this solitary, difficult, but driven man." British Archaelogical News "The narrative grips with a fascination that 70 years and endless retellings cannot dim." Evening Standard "Writing with elegance and sensitivity, Winstone's achievement has been to recover that most difficult of things, a life.: Sunday Telegraph