King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Joined Royal Engineers 1915; World War I, with 50 Div, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1915-1918; posted to Iraq 1920; Ground Intelligence Officer with RAF, Iraq 1920-1926; resigned commission 1926; Inspector, Iraq Government 1926-1930; transferred to Transjordan Administration 1930; Officer Commanding Desert Area, Transjordan 1932; Officer Commanding and Chief of General Staff, Arab Legion, Transjordan 1939-1956; Lt Gen (Feriq), Jordanian Army 1939; World War II 1939-1945; present at capture of Baghdad, Iraq, and capture of Palmyra, Syria 1941; dismissed from office by King Hussein 1956

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Glubb 1956-1960 (ref: LH 1/316) CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: papers of Maj Gen Sir Edward Louis Spears include correspondence 1946-1956 (ref: SPRS 1/148); MIDDLE EAST CENTRE, ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY: Papers, including memoranda, reports, telegrams and correspondence, relating to Iraq 1920-1930; memoranda, reports, telegrams and correspondence relating to Jordan 1930-1956; the papers of Lt Gen John Conyers D'Arcy include three letters from Glubb 1945-1948; the papers of Maj Gen James Doiran Lunt include an address given at Glubb's memorial service 1986; the papers of Harry St John Bridger Philby, explorer, include some of Glubb's papers; ROYAL ENGINEERS LIBRARY, CHATHAM: Diaries 1916-1919 (13 vols, ref 'HMC Survey')

Publications
: Story of the Arab Legion (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1948); A soldier with the Arabs (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1957); Britain and the Arabs: a study of fifty years, 1908 to 1958 (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1959); War in the desert: an RAF frontier campaign (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1960); The great Arab conquests (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963); The empire of the Arabs (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963); The course of empire: the Arabs and their successors (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1965); The lost centuries: from the Muslim empires to the Renaissance of Europe, 1145-1453 (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1967); The Middle East crisis: a personal interpretation (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1967); Syria, Lebanon and Jordan (Thames and Hudson, London, 1967); A short history of the Arab people (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1969); The life and times of Muhammad (History Book Club, London, 1970); Peace in the Holy Land: a historical analysis of the Palestine problem (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1971); Soldiers of fortune: the story of the Mamlukes (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1973); The way of love: lessons from a long life (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1974); Haroon Al Rasheed and the great Abbasids (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1976); Into battle: a soldier's diary of the Great War (Cassell, London, 1978); autobiography, The changing scenes of life (Quartet Books, London, 1983); Arabian adventures (Cassell, London, 1978); A purpose for living (SPCK, London, 1979); Somerset de Chair, The golden carpet (Faber and Faber, London, 1945); Godfrey Lias, Glubb's legion (Evans Bros, London, 1956); James Lunt, Glubb Pasha: a biography: Lieutenant General Sir John Bagot Glubb, Commander of the Arab Legion, 1939-1956 (Harvill Press, London, 1984)

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES Middle East 1920-1956
NAMES Maj Gen Sir Frederick Manley Glubb (father)

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