[Leica] Syria in the 40s

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Damascus was always high on my list of places to visit, being the
oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, but that looks
indefinitely postponed as of now. (-:

Guess I'll have to make do with a safe country like Iran (it really is
very safe if you get media/government planted hobgoblins out of your
head), with its incredible historic cities stretching back to the
beginnings of civilization, in that region...

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> Following on from Jayanand's link to Anzio, I saw another link to Syria in
> the 40s on the Life website. Here it is.
> http://life.time.com/history/syria-crossroads-of-middle-east-during-wwii/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1
>
> Fascinating, especially considering the current mess there. BTW I'd
> recommend "A Line in the Sand" by James Barr which looks at the Sykes Picot
> agreement which carved up the middle east in straight lines between the
> British and the French and subsequently was the reason for inflaming many 
> of
> the issues there.
>
> Douglas
>
>
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