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Yeats-Brown, Francis

Bloody Years. A Decade of Plot a nd Counter-Plot by the Golden Horn

Blue Ribbon Books, 1932,

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Place of printing
New York
Author
Yeats-Brown, Francis
Publishers
Blue Ribbon Books, 1932
Keyword
Turchia Turkey Turquie
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

312pp, frontis port. yellow cloth. Maj. Yeats-Brown's autobiographical account of his experiences in the Balkans and Middle East from 1908-1918. He was in the Royal Flying Corps in Mesopotamia (on a mission for Townshend of Kut), when he was captured by Turks, taken to Baghdad, Mosul, and the "Black Opium City" of Afion karahissar, but escaped by 1918. He incorporated material (pp.107-268) from "Caught by the Turks" published 13 years earlier. Known also as the author of "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer". Istanbul (Stanboul, Constantinople) during the reign of Abdul Hamid.and he rise of the Young Turks, Balkan wars, armenian genocide, through the murder of the Archduke at Serajevo up to the World War.
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