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 of Gertrude Bell

• The Desert and the Sown (1907, republished 1987)
• The Thousand and One Churches (1909, with Sir Wiliam Ramsey)
• Amurath to Amurath (1911)