Relations to the past

I was reading the section of Janet Wallach’s book Desert Queen about Gertrude Bell where her coworker A.T. Wilson was enraged against her due to a report she had filed.  On that day in my life, it spoke to me as I had just gone through a similar experience.

I have done a lot of reading on the Middle East post-World War II and knew the “basics” about the area pre-World War II.

This book opens the door on the Middle East and how it came to be formed pre-World War II and around World War I.

Gertrude Bell was born in the right place and at the right time.  Life didn’t grant her everything she wanted yet in that, life granted her infamy and the creation of a country.  From the comments I’ve seen on the Internet, many do not like her and what she did and what she was part of.  Yet she is an unknown in the story that created  the world as we know it today.

Review: The Traitor’s Gate by Avi

https://www.avi-writer.com/books/books/traitor.html

Traitor’s Gate will keep you at the edge of your seat.  There is so much about the book and the plot you don’t see coming.  You think you know something and then you don’t.

Well researched and written in the parlance of Victorian era Great Britain.

After reading this I want to go back and read all of the Dickens I’ve never read.

A must read.  Suitable for ages 8/9 and up.