![The Secret of the Desert by Brisbane, Coutts [R. Coutts Armour]](/images/books/cover/47225_20201016143822_the-secret-of-the-desert.jpg "The Secret of the Desert by Brisbane, Coutts [R. Coutts Armour]")
'He talked quite freely about the great day when Japan, having quietly trained her hordes and China's, would take her rightful place as mistress of Asia, and then of the world.' Illustrated by John Turner, first published in 1931, reprinted twice doing World War Two, and back again here for the Cold War.
