Gertrude Bell arrives in Constantinople on May 20, 1914. In a telegram, Sir Louis Mallet, the British ambassador, informs his superior about her incredible travels through the Middle East and the value they will have for the British Government.
"Letters from Baghdad" is the story of a true original, Gertrude Bell, sometimes called the female “Lawrence of Arabia.” More influential and famous in her day than her colleague Lawrence, Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I and established the Iraq Museum, infamously ransacked in 2003.
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