Arabie

8vo. 12 pages, plus a fold-out map and photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Together with a folding map delineating Libya's borders, Sandford discusses the conditions under which the Italian or German-Italian army were currently fighting against the Allies in North Africa, uniquely presenting the enemy's perspective in the early stages of the Western Desert Campaign in an attempt to surmise involvement and strategies of the Libyans, and to vehemently protect Britain's rule over Egypt. Details include political affiliation, climate, geology and topography, water supply, and limitations imposed on disposition of troops. He describes the eastern frontier of Libya as extending from the great mass of crystallined rocks known as 'Uweinat' to the Mediterranean, the Gilf Kebir, the highlands of Cyrenacia, and the southern and south-eastern frontiers in Tibesti.