Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East 9781786070029, 1786070022

For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy

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Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
9781786070029, 1786070022

"This is the best and most informative book yet on the struggle for power among the US and Europe, Arab autocratic

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This work is an in-depth study of Syrian politics and foreign relations between 1949 and 1961. Previously unstudied aspe

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The Middle East today stands at an epoch. The artificial architecture created by the British and French is tearing apart

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What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on S

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Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the

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As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans an

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This book, based on four years of on-the-ground reporting, research in ten countries in the Middle East, a thousand hour

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The translated explanation of the greater Israel "Oded Yonen" plan.

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Since 1979, few rivalries have affected Middle Eastern politics as much as the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Ho

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