Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ, KPM (16 April 1897 – 17 March 1986), known as Glubb Pasha (Arabic: كلوب باشا; and known as Abu Hunaik by the Jordanians), was a British military officer who led and trained Transjordan’s Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general. During the First World War, he served in France.
Arabian Adventures
An enlightening personal account of Lieutenant John Bagot Glubb’s turbulent ten years serving in Iraq between the two World Wars.
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Haroon al Rasheed and the Great Abbasids
The enthralling biography of the khalif who laid the foundations of the Islamic Golden Age.
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A Soldier with the Arabs
ubb Pasha
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A fascinating personal account of Glubb Pasha’s time commanding the Arab Legion in Trans-Jordan from 1936-1956, encompassing the Second World War and the impact of the establishment of Israel.
War in the Desert
An enlightening account of the R.A.F.'s perilous early desert flying days in Iraq and what is now known as Saudi Arabia in the 1920s.
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