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Title: | THE SWORD AND THE CROSS: THE CONQUEST OF THE SAHARA | |
| Author: | FERGUS FLEMING | |
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| Price: | £20.00 | ||
| Publisher: | GRANTA | ||
| Distributor: | MDL | ||
| ISBN: | 1862075271 | ||
| Format/Size: | 250X200 MM HB | ||
| Pages: | 400 | ||
| Publication Date: | MARCH 2003 | ||
| LINKS | > Index (by subject) | > Complete list of order forms |
| > Granta Website |
| Description: | As Europe lurched towards war, the fragile peace in the Sahara began to crumble. In his tiny monastery in the desert mountains, Foucauld would pay a tragic price for his own blindness to what he was doing. Laperrine, by then recalled to France to fight on the Western Front, returned to the desert to avenge his friend. |
| Key Points: | This is a vivid, haunting and sharply witty history of a forgotten episode in Europe's colonial crusade, a narrative of self-sacrifice and cruelty, hatred and friendship, discovery and delusion. |
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