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About Bell Of The Desert: A Novel
She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day the brains behind Lawrence of Arabia an adviser to kings and desert sheikhs and the British governments secret weapon in WWI in the campaign against the Turks A brilliant academic mountaineer explorer linguist politician and towering literary figure Gertrude Bell is the most significant unsung heroine of the twentieth century Told as a biographical narrative of history Alan Golds meticulously researched novel accurately opens historys pages on a peerless woman who broke all molds on how Victorian women were supposed to behavesocially intellectually and physically Guiding the events of the day in open sanctioned diplomacy and adventure all across the Middle East her influence on the men at the vanguard of history and her unparalleled skill in sculpting the pathways and influences of the English French and Arab allies on the region all lead to perhaps her greatest achievement single-handedly creating todays Iraq For the first time paperback experience the harrowing story of this extraordinary woman who most determinedly fashioned the Arab world as we know it today
