Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (July 14, 1868–July 12, 1926) was a British woman who had a major hand in creating the modern state of Iraq. During her life she was an unrecognised force behind the Arab revolt in World War I - for which Lawrence of Arabia received most of the credit - and at the conclusion of the war she drew up the borders of the former Mesopotamia to include the three vilayets which became Iraq.

Books about Gertrude Bell

• Susan Goodman - Gertrude Bell (1985)
• Janet Wallach - Desert Queen (1999)
• H.V.F. Winstone - Gertrude Bell (2004)