| Collection type | Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Verrier, Anthony.; Gribbon, Walter, 1881-1944.; Aaronsohn, Aaron, 1876-1919. Diaries. Selections.; |
| Call Number | 940.48641 G846a |
| Document type | Monograph |
| Year | 1995. |
| Citation | 95002657 |
| Pagination | xvi, 342 p. : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Publisher | Brassey's (UK), |
| Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-337) and index. Agents of Empire is the story of a unique partnership, forged by war and matured in friendship. Brigadier Walter Gribbon, formerly of the King's Own Royal Regiment, after junior staff service in the early stages of the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War. , was posted to the War Office to serve as a major under Major General George Macdonogh, the Director of Military Intelligence. Aaron Aaronsohn was a distinguished agronomist working in Palestine, occasionally in the Turkish Administration. He was also. Jew and Zionist. Increasingly convinced that a future for his people depended on British support, Aaronsohn and his family offered their services as intelligence agents to the British in Cairo. They were rebuffed. Aaron then journeyed from Damascus to London, where, in. tober 1916, he met Walter Gribbon. With the support of Zionists such as Mark Sykes and Wyndham Deedes, Gribbon and Aaronsohn set in train an intelligence operation which greatly helped General Allenby to defeat the Turkish Army in the Levant to give Bri. in its 'moment' in the Middle East and lay the foundations for a Zionist state. Bringing together for the first time Gribbon's private papers and Aaronsohn's diaries, in addition to other previously unpublished material, Agents of Empire reveals the ext. t of British political and strategic support for a Zionist state in the latter part of World War I. |
| Place made | Washington |
Diaries. DiariesAgents of empire : Anglo-Zionist intelligence operations, 1915-1919 : Brigadier Walter Gribbon, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the NILI ring / edited by Anthony Verrier.
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| Barcode | Call Suffix | Volume | Part | Year | Location | Status |
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| AWM053395 | 940.48641 G846A | 940.48641 G846a | On Shelf |
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Subjects
- World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Middle East. - Personal narratives, British.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Middle East. - Personal narratives, British. - Campaigns - Middle East.
- Zionism - Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Middle East. - Personal narratives, British. - Military intelligence - Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Middle East. - Personal narratives, British. - Military intelligence - Palestine.
- Gribbon, Walter, 1881-1944 Diaries.
- Aaronsohn, Aaron, 1876-1919 Diaries.
- NILI (Organization : Palestine)