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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Original staple-bound grey card wraps 21x16cm, with black titles, silver Arab Legion emblem, and bow in the colours of the Jordan flag. Printed by Gale & Poden, The Wellington Press, Aldershot. (20)pp glossy pages featuring several b/w photos including frontis portrait of King Abdullah. Wraps very good, spotted, staples rusted, bookseller's ticket inside front. Interiors fine with some spotting. Undated c1949-50 based on the description of its present organisation up to 1949. Although not explicitly stated as such up-front, the final sections make clear that this attractively produced brochure was issued to encourage recruitment in or secondment to the Arab Legion, inviting applications via its HQ in Amman, or its Liaison Officer at the Jordan Legation in London. It opens with a history of the Legion and the Desert Force, its role in the 1936-38 Arab Revolution in Palestine, WW2, and the post-war period up to December 1948 including its emergence from the Jewish-Arab War with an enhanced reputation. Photos show Abdullah with Glubb, Cameliers in the desert, a Bedouin soldier, infantry, artillery, and the undefeated Armoured Car Patrol. A brief description of its present situation mentions its expansion and organisation along British Army lines during 1945-49, and Arabisation with British officers in appointments requiring technical knowledge, training and expertise that their Arab colleagues do not yet possess. The next section describes Jordan and its people, illustrated with scenes of Amman, Jerash, Petra. The remainder focuses on careers with a description of the terms of service for British personnel, and a long list of benefits including housing and furniture, servants, deep sea fishing at Aqaba, duck shooting at Azraq, the Amman Club (pictured), facilities at the RAF base, etc. Apparently extremely rare, with Worldcat locating only 1 at the University of Calgary (OCLC 743216892). Library Hub records a possible holding at the National Army Museum giving only its measurement (21cm), stating it relates to recruitment.

Leather bound. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. The signed limited edition of The Story Of The Arab Legion by Lt. General Sir John Bagot Glubb. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Octavo, 371pp, [1]. Publisher's brown calf, raised bands, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Stated "This Edition Nov 1980" on the copyright page. All edges gilt. Includes the publisher's glassine dust jacket and matching slipcase. Complete with frontispiece portrait, 53 photographic illustrations and seven maps. Appears unread. Loss of gilt on the spine, despite this copy appearing unread. From a limited edition of 100 copies signed by Glubb, this being number 98. The first edition of The Story Of The Arab Legion was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1948. This edition was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Glubb's entrance into the service of the Jordanian Government. Signed.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Written large at the foot of a page on a 4to leaf. In good condition, lightly aged and creased, with a short closed tear to the outer edge just below Glubb's sprawling signature, which consists of an illegible line of curls. Folded once for postage. At the head of the page is Diane Richard's Typed Note Signed, addressed to 'General Glubb' and requesting that he sign 'two pictures from my collection'. Glubb replies: 'Dear Miss RICHARD, / I return your two pictures herewith with much pleasure. / All good wishes, / Your sincerely / [signature]'.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. A brochure prepared prepared by the Arab Legion. Green wraps 21x28cm, illustrated with a photo of the Camel Corps to the front, and emblem of the Arab Legion to the front and back. (38)pp Arabic text, with frontis portrait of King Abdullah decoratively bordered in black, followed by several themed and captioned photo essays. Covers good, foxed, hinges reinforced with archival tape, interiors very good. This includes photos from the Declaration of Independence celebrations on 25 May 1946. Among the VIPs pictured in attendance were Prince Abdul Ilah of Iraq, Ambassador Sir Alec Kirkbride, the last High Commissioner for Palestine and Trans-Jordan Lt-General Sir Alan Cunningham, and General Bernard Paget who had invaded Syria from Trans-Jordan the previous year to quash French ambition. Most of the photos are dedicated to the Jordanian Armed Forces including the Camel Corps, cavalry, Mechanised Transport, Tank Command, etc showing them in the field, during training, on parade, using new technology, and during a visit to Britain. There are also photos of Glubb, and of Abdullah presenting awards, at work in his Palace, visiting Britain etc. Very rare. Another edition was produced with (46)pp, that included the King's speech, the Declaration, and opening messages by the Army paying tribute to the King and describing their role in the celebratory Parade, with Abdullah's portrait alternately bordered in green, and the same photo essays.

A visual record of a highly decorated senior officer's time in the Arab Legion in the years before the dismissal of Glubb Pasha. Accompanying this album is his keffiyeh, complete with a metal badge with the legion's insignia. Peter Young (1915-1988) was posted to GHQ Middle East Land Forces in November 1951, having served with the British Commandos during the Second World War (during which he was awarded the DSO, the MC, and two bars). In 1953, he was selected to replace Lieutenant-Colonel James Watson as commander of the Arab Legion's 9th Infantry Regiment (raised in 1950). He led the regiment for three years, was awarded the Jordanian Order of Al Istiqla in 1954, and published Bedouin Command, a memoir of his service, in 1956. The centrepiece is a selection of photographs documenting the duties and composition of the regiment. In 1956, it was involved in providing security arrangements for the state opening of parliament and the visit of the Turkish president to Amman. Operating out of headquarters at a police station, Young directed troops sent to safeguard Parliament House and the Turkish embassy from demonstrators. Images show Parliament House, the king's bodyguard, and veteran Circassians, as well as a smiling Sir Patrick Coghill, the legion's director-general of intelligence, and Abdul Rahman Sahen, Iraq's bedouin head of security. Among the regiment's other responsibilities was protecting the Hejaz Railway, and one photograph shows soldiers on guard by an imposing locomotive. The album also presents over a dozen portrait photographs of regimental officers and staff, among them Lieutenant Hammad Faleh, the oldest officer in the 9th, and Young's long-serving interpreter, Ahmed Qasim. Away from the burdens of command, Young pursued his passion for the theatre (later in life, he founded Britain's largest historical re-enactment society) and sight-seeing. In April 1955, he took charge of a harlequinade put on by the expatriate theatre troop, the Zerqua Follies, in which both and his wife, Joan (née Duckworth, 1916-1991), performed. Mounted into the album is a copy of the playbill and three dozen photographs of the rehearsals, the Youngs in full costume. There is time to sight-see in Jerash (the forum), Jerusalem, and Jericho, and in March 1955 he visits Ajloun Castle in Jordan. Photographs taken by him and associates also show the West Bank and the town of Arraba. Joan Young joins him for shooting practice in the desert, and on long drives he has for company his faithful Alsatian, Tigla, whom he inherited from the regiment's former commander. Where a car is not available, he rides in Lawrence of Arabia fashion through the desert, his party cloaked against the sun and wind. Glubb Pasha's dismissal in March 1956 brought an end to Young's command, but life after the Middle East was anything but uneventful. Accompanying the Arab Legion material is a selection of press images from autumn 1956, when Young travelled with a delegation of British officers to Quantico, Virginia, to train at the Marine Corps School. Included is a large photograph of the school's commander, Lieutenant-General Merrill Barber Twining, United States Marine Corps, inscribed by Twining to Young and dated 18 October 1956, and another shows the two men in conversation. Retiring in 1959 at the honorary rank of brigadier, Young became a respected military historian, heading the department of military history at Sandhurst for a decade and writing books on military history and wargaming. His medals are held by the National Army Museum. Contemporary landscape folio album of red half boards, black sides, tied with chord through holes as issued, 51 black card leaves with 155 corner-mounted gelatin silver and colour photographs, the majority snapshot- and postcard-sized, many captioned, spaces where some photographs no longer present, printed playbill and typed letter signed laid in. Together with 28 loose photographs, including 9 US Marine Corps press photographs, and large red-and-white keffiyeh with white tassels and metal badge. Binder lightly soiled, photographs generally well preserved, occasional fading and mirroring, loose photographs curling, keffiyeh showing signs of field use: a very good archive.

'If he survives he may well be a great man at 40':Glubb Pasha gives his assessment of King Hussein of Jordan in 1959Three autograph documents by 'Glubb Pasha', giving a detailed and perceptive assessment of the character and situation of his erstwhile master King Hussein of Jordan (1935-1999), written to assist John Freeman (1915-2014) in preparing the interview with King Hussein broadcast in the BBC series 'Face to Face' on 1 January 1960. From the papers of the programme's producer Hugh Burnett (1924-2011). The first item is a long letter from Glubb to Burnett, giving a thoughtful and perceptive assessment of Hussein's character and situation, including a discussion of relations between Jordan and Britain, and a comparison between Hussein and President Nasser of Egypt. The second item is a series of 34 potential questions which Glubb suggests be put to the king. The third item is the covering letter to the second, describing the questions in it as 'ideas which I hope may be useful', and offering to involve himself in the preparation for the interview ('we have lots of time'). The fourth item is the printer's copy of the transcript of the interview as published in Burnett's 1964 book of the series.Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1999) is described in his entry in the Oxford DNB as 'servant of both Britain and Jordan' and 'the last in the long line of powerful British proconsuls'. In 1939 Glubb took command of the Arab Legion (subsequently the Jordan Royal Army), transforming it into the best-trained and most effective military force in the Arab world, and himself leading it across the River Jordan to occupy the West Bank during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. According to the ODNB Glubb 'was greatly reliant on King Abdullah's support, which vanished when the king was assassinated on 20 July 1951. His son Talal reigned only a few months before abdicating, and was succeeded by his son, Hussein, still only sixteen and a schoolboy at Harrow. Although Hussein respected Glubb, the gap between their ages proved impossible to bridge and they soon fell out. Military and political developments were rapidly outgrowing Glubb, and the influential foreign adviser to an oriental monarch was becoming an anachronism.' In 1956 Glubb was dismissed from his command, and given 24 hours to leave the country. He returned to Britain with only £5, and did not receive a general's pension from either Britain or Jordan. Despite the manner of Glubb's dismissal, the two documents present here reflect the 'exemplary dignity' with which the ODNB notes he always acted thereafter.The four items are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn, all four with punch-holes for binding.ONE: Autograph Letter Signed (with Glubb's stylised curling signature). Mayfield (Sussex); 5 December 1959. 6pp., foolscap 8vo. With Televsion Registry date stamp.A thoughtful assessment of King Hussein's character, Addressed to 'Dear Burnett', and written 'In continuation of my previous notes on King Husain [sic].'The letter covers:Hussein's 'extremely democratic & informal' nature on first coming back from England to assume the Jordanian throne: 'He liked jumping alone into his car without a hat and driving into the Town - perhaps to go to the cinema. The police, the officials & the escort used to be in a frenzy looking for him. [] I don't think he can do that so much now, there seems to be too much risk of his being assassinated.'Hussein's 'attitude to everything', which is ('in schoolboy language') 'flat out': 'In 1953, 1954 & 1955, there were several ugly incidents on the Jordan Israeli frontier, villages being raided by the Israeli army & many people killed. In every case, the king's first instinct was to jump into a car and drive himself to the frontier, to see in person what was happening. [] He was most anxious to meet the people and would get out of his car in the villages to talk with villagers and get their first hand knowledge.'His love of risk: 'He delighted to drive his car at br.