After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society
Reception
Freya Stark
The text was published to rave reviews in the Sunday Times, the Observer, and other papers. For her piece in The Spectator, Vita Sackville-West
wrote an open letter to the author rather...
Travel
Ella K. Maillart
They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice.
Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php.
Their route, which lay through the remote province of...
