Long road to Baghdad
Subtitle: a novel
By: Catrin Collier
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bedlinog
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9781909840843; 9781909840850
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Turkey Fiction; Fiction; Love stories
Description: Mesopotamia, 1914: in the Middle East tension is escalating between the British and the Arabs. Misfit Lieutenant Harry Downe is sent to negotiate a treaty with a renegade Bedouin Sheikh, Ibn Shalan, whose tribe is attacking enemy patrols in Iraq and cutting their oil pipelines. Greedy for arms, Shalan accepts British weapons but, in return, Harry must take his daughter Furja to be his bride. The secret marriage leads to a deep love, to the anger of Shalan and the disgust of Harry's fellow officers. But war is looming, and the horrors of the battlefield threaten to destroy Harry's newfound happiness, and change his life and that of his closest friends for ever.