Ebook: Lords of the Atlas: the Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Author's Foreword; Table of Principal Events; Map; Genealogical Table of the House of Glaoua from the 1960s; BOOK ONE: Madani El Glaoui; Chapter 1: The Castle; Chapter 2: The Cannon; Chapter 3: Whose King is a Child; Chapter 4: The Time and the Country; Chapter 5: The Defeat of Abd El Aziz; Chapter 6: Madani's Sultan -- Moulay Hafid; Chapter 7: The Hostages; Chapter 8: The Beginning of the Great Caid Era; BOOK TWO: T'hami El Glaoui; Chapter 9: The Golden Years; Chapter 10: The Glaoui Empire Completed; Chapter 11: The Image; Chapter 12: Towards Independence.;Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror. On returning from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, T'hami ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be moun.