Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. "She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. At one time she was the most powerful woman in the British Empire, a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, she turned her back on house..... More
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