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YEATS-BROWN (Francis)
Golden Horn.
1st Ed., 287pp., 3 portraits, 2 sketches. Gollancz.
1932
#68045
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Subtitled "Plot & Counterplot in Turkey, 1908-1918, as seen 'from the inside' by a prisoner of war." Yeats-Brown, a captain in the 17th Cavalry (IA), was observing for Capt. White of the Australian Flying Corps when they were both captured in enemy territory on a mission to Bagdhad in Nov. 1915 (when they landed to blow up the Turk's telegraph lines), PoW & eventual escape from Istanbul. He also records various Turkish intrigues, the Armenian Massacres, &c. Orig. black cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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