Flight-lieutenant Guy Baring hated the dry, dusty road between the Royal Air Force Station at Hinaidi and Baghdad, yet certain minor duties in connection with this self-imposed office of Station Sports Officer demanded his presence in the much-overrated City of the Caliphs, where the romance is not so immediately apparent as the aroma. So he had traversed it, requisitioning Service transport for t...
William Earl Johns - The Raid
The Raid
William Earl Johns
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Flight-lieutenant Guy Baring hated the dry, dusty road between the Royal Air Force Station at Hinaidi and Baghdad, yet certain minor duties in connection with this self-imposed office of Station Sports Officer demanded his presence in the much-overrated City of the Caliphs, where the romance is not so immediately apparent as the aroma. So he had traversed it, requisitioning Service transport for the purpose.