Item #113747 A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'. T. E. LAWRENCE, Lieutenant-Colonel H. PIRIE-GORDON.

[LAWRENCE, T.E.]. PIRIE-GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel H. (editor)

A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'

Cairo, Produced by the Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919.

Large quarto, [vi], 113 pages plus a linen-backed frontispiece portrait of Allenby and 55 full-page colour maps (each with a page of explanatory text facing it).

Bound without the original wrappers in contemporary half calf and stippled cloth (the leather now a little rubbed, with one corner bumped); linen foxed, affecting the front flyleaf and frontispiece; five maps lightly cockled near the leading edge; an excellent copy.

One of 16,000 copies printed so that members of the EAF 'may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they played a part' (preface). The work is now most collected because of the few unattributed sections contributed by T.E. Lawrence ('Sherifian Co-operation in September', and 'Story of the Arab Movement', on the five pages facing maps 49-53). There is also much on the Australian Light Horse and Camel Brigade actions, perhaps most famously the charge on Beersheba. Trigellis-Smith 258; O'Brien A011.