April 12, 2024
RARE 1932 MESOPOTAMIA BAGHDAD MOSUL TURKEY AFIONKARAHISSAR CONSTANTINOPLE
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GOLDEN HORN by Francis Yeats-Brown Gollancz, London, 1932 Book Details 1st UK Edition. 287pp with 3 black and white illustrations and 2 sketch maps. Size of Book: 22cm x 14.5cm/8.75in x 5.5n Book Description Very good to very good (+) publisher’s original black cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front cover. Light foxing to the external leading and bottom edges. A few scattered spots of some pages but otherwise the text is in every good condition with no major foxing, marks or other blemishes. In a very good dust jacket slightly chipped at head and tail of spine. Spine and edges of the front and rear panel browned. Scarce 1st Edition in a dust jacket. About this Book “Golden Horn” is in two parts, the first four chapters (106pp) deal with the last days of Abdul Hamid II, the 1908 revolution in Turkey and the events in Turkey and the Balkans in the build-up to the outbreak of the First World War. The following six chapters (180 pp) that make up the second half of the book deal with the author’s experiences as a prisoner of the Turks after being shot down near Ctesiphon in 1915 during the Mesopotamian Campaign. In this second part Yeats-Brown describes the forced march through northern Iraq to a prisoner of war camp in Afionkarahissar in Turkey. After spending two years in the camp Yeats-Brown was sent to a hospital
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