xxxvFig. 1.1 Diplomatic privilege: Sir Kinahan Cornwallis and his embassy
staff. Baghdad, 1940s. Source: GB165-0228 Perowne Alb no.
17, Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony’s College, Oxford 8
Fig. 1.2 Freya Stark in Jebel Druze (Syria), 1928. Source: Royal
Geographical Society/Alamy Stock Photo 13
Fig. 1.3 Herbert Francis ‘Adrian’ Bishop, SOE field commander.
Source: Peter T. Wright 17
Fig. 2.1 Refuge from the storm: the embassy on the banks of the Tigris
(from an official Christmas card, ca 1942). Source: Container
12.2 (Sir Kinahan Cornwallis), Series II Correspondence,
1893–1985, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at
Austin 39
Fig. 3.1 RAF Habbaniya, looking south across the plateau on which
Iraqi troops deployed on 2 May 1941. Source: Wikimedia
Commons 51
Fig. 4.1 Emir Abdulillah of Hejaz, Regent of Iraq. His closest friends
during the war were not Arabs but the British diplomats Gerald
de Gaury and Stewart Perowne. Source: War Archive/Alamy
Stock Photo 64
Fig. 4.2 Enzo Sereni, SOE officer and Zionist emissary. Source: D2-009,
The National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press
Office, State of Israel 80
Fig. 5.1 Aidan Lawrence Brade Philip, SOE field commander. Source:
HS 9/1181/4, The National Archives 99
Fig. 6.1 Hanbury Knollys Dawson-Shepherd, DSO Iraq, as a Palestine
Police constable. Source: Dr. Alexander Dawson-Shepherd 117
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