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'A Small Room in Clarges Street': War-Time Lectures at the Royal Central Asian Society, 19421944
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (Ed.)
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Description for 'A Small Room in Clarges Street': War-Time Lectures at the Royal Central Asian Society, 19421944
Hardcover. Editor(s): Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJH; HBJF1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organised by the Royal Central Asian Society (now the Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their hand-picked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia and Russia with the intention to propose strategies for Britain's post-war international role. The lecturers were chosen for their inside knowledge of these countries: a British General who had visited Russia's front-line held against the German invasion; an RAF officer who was in Iraq during the pro-German ... Read more
During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organised by the Royal Central Asian Society (now the Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their hand-picked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia and Russia with the intention to propose strategies for Britain's post-war international role. The lecturers were chosen for their inside knowledge of these countries: a British General who had visited Russia's front-line held against the German invasion; an RAF officer who was in Iraq during the pro-German ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196332
SKU
V9781845196332
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Ref
99-50
About Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (Ed.)
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones is archivist at the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. She is an historian, who read languages and gained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She has worked in Saudi Arabia and travelled extensively, including the overland route through Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 1970s. She has published a number of books, mainly ... Read more
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