Description
Adventures of a Napoleonic Soldier in the Middle East (1806-1820)
By Giovanni Finati
Illustrations: none
Pages: 161pages
$25.00
soft cover
Giovanni Finati was drafted into the Army of Kingdom of Northern Italy, deserted while serving in Croatia, fled to Albania, boarded a Turkish ship to Egypt, found himself short of cash and joined the Egyptian Army under Mehemed Ali. He then served in Mehemed Ali’s campaign against the Wahabbis in the Arabian Peninsula. This is his narrative of his adventures and travels. It is a particularly rare firsthand account of the Egyptian campaign against the Wahabbis, the same guys who flew the aircraft into the Twin Towers on 9/11. This work was originally published in 1880.
