Long Road To Baghdad

Name: Long Road To Baghdad
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Catrin Collier
ISBN: 9781785025754

Author: Catrin Collier

Narrator: Saul Reichlin

Unabridged: 17 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Story Sound

Published: 10/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Sagas

Synopsis

In the Middle East tension is escalating between the British and the Arabs. Misfit Lieutenant Harry Downe is sent to negotiate a treaty with a renegade Bedouin Sheikh, Ibn Shalan, whose tribe is attacking enemy patrols in Iraq and cutting oil pipelines. Greedy for arms, Shalan accepts British weapons but, in return, Harry must take his daughter Furja to be his bride. The secret marriage leads to a deep love, to the anger of Shalan and the disgust of Harry's fellow officers. But war is looming, and threatens to destroy Harry's newfound happiness, and change his life and that of his closest friends for ever.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on January 27, 2021

Delighted to find a book of such quality this early in the New Year. After some difficulty , I have managed to track down hardcover copies of the other 2 in the trilogy and look forward to reading them too. The story begins in 1914 before the outbreak of WW1 and this part takes the reader to the end......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on August 28, 2015

I picked up this book quite by chance while browsing the library shelves. My grandfather served time in Mesopotamia during WWI and I decided to give the novel a go. It was an interesting read right from the start with well written characters. It addresses a large number of personal, cultural, social......more

Goodreads review by Lena on August 27, 2019

Fascinating insight into First World War in the Middle East. What those guys went through and also the part women played in the nursing of the wounded. I can't wait to read the next book in the trilogy.......more