Iraq and Eleanor Egan's The War in the Cradle of the World

Chronicling the British military's invasion of Iraq in 1917, Eleanor Franklin Egan was an intrepid American journalist who wrote an autobiographical account of her time spent amongst British officers in the Middle East during and just after World War I. Reading Egan provides contemporary readers with possible insight into how and why the United States has inherited the United Kingdom's position in the modern Middle East.