Gertrude Bell queen of the desert, shaper of nations
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned...
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New York
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2007.
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| Edizione: | 1st American ed. |
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