One Man in His Time. The Diary of a Palestine Policeman 1946-48 (SIGNED)

Sussex, The Book Guild. 1997, 1997. 1st Edition. 116 pages. Near fine hardback covers in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. Contents fine. Black and white ills. Flat signed on the title page and inscribed on the front free endpaper "Freda. With best wishes from the author who was ex-british constable 282 and to Tony Wright of this tale". Scarce

The Palestine Police Force was a British colonial police service established in Mandatory Palestine on 1 July 1920, when High Commissioner Herbert Samuel's civil administration took over responsibility for security from General Allenby's Occupied Enemy Territory Administration.

The police force at the time consisted of 18 British officers supported by 55 Palestinian officers and 1,144 rank and file. By 1928 the Force had 2,143 officers (all ranks): 321 Jews, 1293 Muslim Arabs and 471 Christian Arabs.