A Flying Visit
To The Middle East

This book contains lectures by Sir Samuel Hoare on his visit to various territories in the Middle East that were under British control after WW1.

Samuel Hoare (Author)

9781107492868, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 March 2015

114 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.6 cm, 0.1 kg

Originally published in 1925, this book contains the text of lectures made by Sir Samuel Hoare, then the Secretary of State for Air, to students at Harrow School on the subject of his visit to various territories in the Middle East that were under British control after the First World War, including Baghdad and Jerusalem. The text is conversational and easy to read, and photographs of the people, animals and places seen on Hoare's journey are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Middle East or in British colonial history.

Preface
The object of the journey
The journey
The air command and the desert route.

Subject Areas: Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]