Crescent and Iron Cross (1918 First Edition). By E F Benson

Crescent and Iron Cross by E F Benson.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1918, First Edition.

Very good hardback, red cloth boards with silver titles to front and gilt to spine. Boards are marked with fading and compression to spine. No inscriptions, tanning to pages, foxing to edges and some margins. Binding firm, double page maps at front excellent, fold-out map at rear has a small repaired tear at inside edge. 268 pages.

Written at the height of the First World War, this British book was primarily designed to be an anti-German propaganda piece, based upon the Kaiser's alliance with the Ottoman Turkish Empire before and during the Great War. Despite this original intent, the Crescent and Iron Cross objectively answers the burning question of why the German Kaiser decided to ally himself with the Ottoman Turks-an empire which had tried to destroy the Germans, and indeed all the European people, for the previous five hundred years. In addition, this work provides a detailed and valuable account of the Armenian holocaust, in which the Ottoman Turks effectively wiped out those people in what was unquestionably a major crime against humanity.

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