The Golden Carpet. By Somerset de Chair. (Faber and Faber.
15s.) THIS volume contains Captain de Chair's narrative of the British expedition to Baghdad in 1941, and the subsequent campaign in Syria, which appeared originally in two separate volumes under the titles of The Golden Carpet and The Silver Crescent, in small limited editions. It is a fascinating and well-told story, as those who read Mr. Harold Nicolson's eulogy of The Golden Carpet in these pages when it originally appeared will remember. Here is the whole story now made available to the general public for the first time, and it is a 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. It is beautifully produced, with adequate maps, and has as appendix a commentary by Glubb Pasha, the leader of the famous Desert Patrol.
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