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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With newly declassified records and long-forgotten memoirs -- including the diaries of a key British spy -- Barr tears up the conventional interpretation of this era in the Middle East, vividly portraying the tensions between London and Washington, and shedding an uncompromising light on the murkier activities of a generation of American and British diehards in the region, from the battle of El Alamein in 1942 to Britain's abandonment of Aden in 1967....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Uses recently declassified French and British government documents to describe how the two countries secretly divided the Middle East during World War I and the effect these mandates had on local Arabs and Jews.
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