Lifting The Veil: British Society In Egypt 1768 1956 by Anthony Sattin

Lifting The Veil: British Society In Egypt 1768 1956

Anthony Sattin

289 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
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For a hundred years or more, until the last troops embarked at Suez in 1956, Egypt was the hub of Britain's empire, the point at which Western etiquette first encountered Eastern splendour. A unique cast of travellers, traders and troops made thei...

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