Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: 6 books

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt - Being a Personal Narrative of Events. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly...

SECRET HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH OCCUPATION OF EGYPT Being a Personal Narrative of Events By WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT. COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Published, October, 1922. Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.  Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York,...

I ought perhaps to have named this volume “The Awakening of India,” because it describes the condition of Indian things at the time of Lord Ripon’s viceroyalty, which was in truth the awakening hour of the new movement towards liberty in India, the dawn of that day of unrest which is the necessary prelude to full self-assertion in every subject land.

Since the first brief preface to my manuscript was written twelve years ago, events have happened which seem to indicate that the moment foreseen in it has at last arrived when to the public advantage and without risk of serious indiscretion as far as individuals are concerned, the whole truth may...

I desire to place on record in a succinct and tangible form the events which have come within my knowledge relating to the origin of the English occupation of Egypt—not necessarily for publication now, but as an available document for the history of our times. At one moment I played in these events...