NOGALES, Rafael de. Vier Jahre unter dem Halbmond. Erinnerungen aus dem Weltkriege. Berlin, Reimar Hobbing, [1925].
8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in black, with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 255, highly illustrated with plates after photographs, folding map, printed in red and black; fine.
First German edition of this personal account of Turkey during the First World War, well-illustrated and with the fine wrappers designed and signed in print by Hans Anton Aschenborn, poet, book illustrator and painter of mainly South African animals.
Rafael Inchauspe Méndez, known as Rafael de Nogales Méndez was a Venezuelan soldier who fought in several armies almost world-wide, including this one, the First World War, where he observed atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities in Anatolia. Later he joined the Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino. It is reported that De Nogales and T. E. Lawrence encountered each other; without, however, exchanging a single word.
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