GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: DE CHAIR, Somerset.

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The Golden Carpet; [together with] -- The Silver Crescent. Limited editions, numbers 130 and 494 of 500 copies. De Chair (1911-1995) was an intelligence officer with "Kingcol", a flying column of fewer than 1,500 men under the command of Brigadier J. J. Kingstone. This tiny force was ordered from Palestine to Baghdad to deal with the "Golden Square" coup among pro-Nazi Iraqi military officers.Despite the air support extended to the Iraqis by the German and Italian air forces, the operation was a complete success and led to the fall of Baghdad 30 May 1941. These works cover this and subsequent operations in Syria. They were reviewed in the Spectator on the issue of the trade edition in 1944 as "a fascinating and well-told story... in the tradition of T. E. Lawrence, and one worthy to take its place in the history of British soldiers' heroic campaigns in the Near East".

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