Home / Browse / Military & Naval / From Kastamuni to Kedos.
WOOLLEY, Chester Leonard. (Edited)
From Kastamuni to Kedos.
Being a record of experiences of prisoners of war in Turkey, 1916-18.
First edition. An uncommon book. With the outbreak of the First World War, Woolley (an archaeologist, who once worked with T. E. Lawrence as his assistant) served as an intelligence officer posted to Cairo, attaining the rank of major before the Turks took him prisoner late in 1916, when his ship blew up in the eastern Mediterranean. A lively account of experiences and conditions in a Turkish P.O.W. camp. Interesting and revealing appendices on food stuff prices during internment; Nominal Rolls of British Officers; Native Officers and Orderlies; listing Title and Rank, Regiment, Place and Date of Capture, and Camps, and Date of Arrival.
Large octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece, 14 plates, 2 in colour, 12 illustrations to text, 2 maps. Plate indicated to face p34 is mounted on p34, as always. Slightly rubbed and worn, bookseller's description tipped onto the front free endpaper, binding slightly cracked internally between pages 128-9, light toning, otherwise very good.
