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Article: Desert queen: the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell. (explorer, author and adventurer)
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- The Middle East
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- March 1, 1997
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Pat McDonnell Twair talked to Janet Wallach, the author of a new book on the fascinating life of explorer, author and adventurer Gertrude Bell.
In this latest biography of desert explorer/archaeologist and mentor of Iraq's King Faisal, the author Janet Wallach credits Gertrude Bell for demarcating the modern borders of Iraq and for overruling the then British prime minister, Winston Churchill, who was in favour of carving out a homeland for the Kurds in the Mosul region.
During a book signing on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, author Janet Wallach told me the Iraqis were particularly helpful to her in her research in Baghdad "because Gertrude was responsible for ...