"This selection of letters, which includes several never before published, covers far more than her famous journeys: she was often present where modern history was being made: the First World War nursing in Caporetto, the 1920s in Italy watching the rise of Mussolini, the 1930s exploring South Arabia and the Near East, the Second World War as an information Office in Aden, Cairo, Baghdad during the dramatic siee of the Embassy, India and the United States." With a foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor, bw map, 404pp inc index. Page edges slightly darkened.

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