4° Broadside, 36 x 22 cm (Very Good, some wear and toning along old folds, a few very light stains; contemporary Mss. annotations in pencil in Arabic to verso; discreet remains of mounting tape to v Archives

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- ‘THE BAGHDAD PROCLAMATION’ / WWI in IRAQ / MILITARY and DIPLOMATIC HISTORY: Proclamation / To the People of Baghdad Vilayet.
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- An exceedingly rare broadside bearing the text of ‘The Baghdad Proclamation’, the most famous and consequential document relating to WWI’s Mesopotamian Campaign; pronounced by General Sir Stanley Maude, declaring that British forces arrived in Baghdad as ‘liberators’ of the Iraqi people, bearing ‘florid’ text written by the controversial fixer Sir Mark Sykes; this being the second printing of the…
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