Cairo in the War 1939-1945 - Hardcover

Cooper, Artemis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241126711 ISBN 13: 9780241126714

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1989

Synopsis

This book relates what Cairo, between 1939-1945, meant to different groups of people, such as the troops, the officers, the irregular warriors, the inveterate gamblers, the free French, Poles and Balkan Royal families as well as the countless refugees.

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Review:

'As hard to put down as good fiction. The research is wide, detailed and scrupulous. It is hard to think, on finishing, how this demanding book could have been handled better, more lucidly or more entertaining' (Patrick Leigh Fermor, Times Literary Supplement)

'This informative and enjoyable book puts political history side-by-side with the personal sub-history of the characters who determined it . . . a mine of entertaining anecdotes' (Rana Kabbani, Observer)

'What lifts it out of the ordinary is the sparkle of the writing and its command of the background' (P. H. Newby, Sunday Telegraph)

'Much more than a lively and amusing social history. With enormous skill she has shaped it into a gripping account of the progress of the war itself and of the fortunes of its major protagonists. The result is bracing and salutary and very readable indeed' (Charles Allen, Sunday Times)

Book Description:

A history of the glamorous and military critical city of Cairo during the Second World War

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0241126711
• ISBN 13: 9780241126714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384