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Sir ROBERT GRAVES "Storm Centres of the Near East, Personal Memoirs 18791929 / With 17 Illustrations", London: Hutchinson & Co, 1933. In 8o, 375pp. + 12 pages of publishers editions. Original hardcover cloth, slight stain on front cover,spine minimum worn. Interior pages are clean throughout. Dust jacket, partly torn up. Very good copy. Sir Robert Windham Graves (18581934) was a British career diplomat spent more than 50 years in the "Orient". This valuable work includes his personal experiences as a consul of the events that led to WWI. Starting from the end of 19th century, he attests first hand information along the SerboBulgarian War, the Eastern Roumelia revolution, the Armenia & the Armenian massacres, Crete from 18991903, Macedonia during the Macedonian Struggle, Constantinople & Albania.