Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East by James Barr

Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East

James Barr

416 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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An authoritative history of how the U.S. supplanted Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle EastWe usually assume that Arab nationalism brought about the end of the British Empire in the Middle East-that Gamal Abdel Nasser and other Ar...

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