The Mule on the Minaret: A Novel about the Middle East

by Alec Waugh

Book Overview

Based on the author's own experience as an officer in the British Intelligence and packed with the most closely observed detail of the people, places and costumes of the Levant, The Mule on the Minaret is a long, colourful, fascinating story of wartime intelligence centred on Beirut and Baghdad.

It is the story, primarily, of Noel Reid, a professor of History and Philosophy, (married, but not very happily) who is posted in 1941 to the Intelligence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144820075X
• ISBN13: 9781448200757
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
• Length: 706 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"