First Edition. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM SIR JOHN BAGOT GLUBB (GLUBB PASHA). Illustrated with 8 photographic plates and maps in the text. 8vo, publisher's original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, in the scarce pictorial dustjacket. 352. A fine copy with minor age evidence to the dustjacket. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. A little known chapter in the history of the R.A.F. from the days when desert flight was an especially perilous undertaking. A vivid personal experience from the Arab war written in the tradition of Burton and Lawrence, providing a fascinating picture of the people of the desert from a British man who lived with them and understood their ways perhaps better then any other European. "This welcome volume gives the author once more the opportunity of showing how completely unrivalled he is in penetrating the Arab mind."-The Scotsman.

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Title: WAR IN THE DESERT An R.A.F. Frontier Campaign
Publisher: London Hodder and Stoughton 1960
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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