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Wallach, Janet.
Desert Queen
[Libby eBook].
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
2010.
Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5276kB.
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HTML:<p><b>This “richly textured biography” (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, <i>Letters from Baghdad</i>, soon to air on public television.</b><br /> <br /> Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire.<br />  <br /> In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements–a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a...</p>.
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