CIX!
Hi chaps - I'm trying to find the author and title of a book I once had but loaned out and can't remember to whom it has loaned.
It was published, I believe, sometime in the first half of the 20th Century. The author was an Anglican priest who was sent to Mosul, Iraq, as part of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Nestorians. After the war (I think it was WW1, thought it could be 2), he converted to Roman Catholicism and published that book.
It contains fascinating references to how the Assyrian/Chaldaean rite was practiced at the time in small poor villages - the altar being nothing more than a niche in the wall and the candles stuck to the wall (with more wax); it mentions the Russian mission to convert the Assyrians; it mentions how Kurdish tribesmen would rob and kill the Christians with impunity while the Turkish authorities turned a blind eye.
Anyone able to help? I miss my copy - it had a newspaper cutting with a review of the book from an English Catholic newspaper - I'm convinced it belonged to someone close to the author, if not the author himself, but I can't for the life of me recall either the title or the author's name!
