| KURDS, ARABS and BRITONS
The Memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel
Wallace A. Lyon CBE in Iraq 1918–44
Edited and with an introduction
by D.K. Fieldhouse
I.B.Tauris Publishers
LONDON • NEW YORK
Acknowledgement of souces for maps and pictures, with thanks.
The maps were drawn from the following originals:
Maps 1 and 2: C. M. Andrew and A. S. Kanya-Forstner, France Overseas
(Thames and Hudson, London 1981;
Map 3: J. Marlowe, Late Victorian (Cresset Press, London, 1967);
Map 4: C. J. Edmonds, Kurds, Turks and Arabs (Oxford University Press,
London, 1957).
Illustrations:
Jacket Illustration is from A. M. Hamilton, Road Through Kurdistan (Faber and
Faber, London, 1937);
from the Middle East Centre archive, Oxford:
Illustrations 2, 7, 9, the Vyvyan Holt Collection
Illustrations 8, 11, 12, 15, the Edmonds Collection
Illustrations 14, 16 the Freya Stark Collection
from C. J. Edmonds, Kurds, Turks and Arabs, Illustration 6;
from J. Marlowe, Late Victorian, Illustrations 2, 5;
the other Illustrations are from the W. A. Lyon Papers.
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