Title: A crackle of thorns; experiences in the Middle East.
Authors: Kirkbride, Alec Seath, 1897-
Publisher: J. Murray
Year: 1956
Subjects: Middle East History.
Contents: T.E. Lawrence (Hejaz, 1918) -- Commanding royal artillery (Hejaz, 1918) -- The national government of Moab (Jordan, 1920-1) -- The king with a twinkle (1921-51) -- Seeing off a king (Hejaz, 1924) -- Mar Saba (Palestine, 1924) -- Nothing but the truth (Jordan, 1929) -- The vanished city (Jordan, 1930) -- The first patrol (Jordan, 1931) -- Tribal warfare and raiding -- Demarcating a frontier (Jordan, 1932) -- Machaerous (Jordan, 1936) -- Galilee (Palestine, 1937-9) -- '...until you are dead' (Palestine, 1937) -- Odd fellows -- 'Rumm of the pillars, which has no equal' (Jordan) -- The black days (Jordan, 1941) -- 'Pax' (Palestine, 1943) -- French, free and otherwise (Jordan 1939-44) -- The army of deliverance (Palestine, 1948) -- No armour (Jordan, 1951) -- Ghouls, ghosts and wizards -- The chase (Jordan, 1918-51) -- The Fezzan (Libya, 1952)