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The Woman Who Vanished
REMEMBER HER
The doc ‘Letters From Baghdad,’ narrated by Tilda Swinton, tells the story of Gertrude Bell, a British explorer who helped shape Iraq—only to be cruelly written out of history.
Zeva Oelbaum
Sabine Krayenbühl
Published
Jun. 4 2017
12:00AM EDT
Photo illustration by The Daily Beast/Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University
Zeva Oelbaum
Sabine Krayenbühl
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