Arab Command: The Biography of Colonel F. G. Peake Pasha

by C.S. Jarvis

158 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1942

About the author

Major Claude Scudamore Jarvis CMG OBE (20 July 1879 – 8 December 1953) was a British colonial governor. As an Arabist and naturalist, he became noted for his knowledge of the desert Bedouin and for his rapport with them.

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Reviews

[Amara Thornton]

this biography of peake pasha is the only one i was able to find on the man. it conveys the atmosphere(through some very entertaining vocabulary choices) of british military life in mandate iraq and jordan through the eyes of one of the commanders of the desert patrol.