First published in 1929, this book contains volume II of The Letters of Gertrude Bell . Contents include: 1917 Bagdad , 1918-1919 Bagdad , 1920 Bagdad , Historical Summaries , Major General Sir Percy Cox, G.C.M.G., Etc. , H.E. Sir Henry Dobbs, K.C.S.I., Etc. , 1920 Bagdad , 1921 Bagdad , 1921 Bagdad , etc. A fascinating insight into the life and mind of a woman who played a major role in establishing administering the modern state of Iraq. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an important policy-making in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Other notable works by this author include: Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (1892), The Desert and the Sown (1907), and Mountains of the Servants of God (1910). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.