Description: Further DetailsTitle: False ProphetsCondition: NewSubtitle: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to SyriaISBN-10: 178649325XEAN: 9781786493255ISBN: 9781786493255Edition: MainPublisher: Atlantic BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/03/2022Description: 'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Less than forty years later, the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain's standing in the Middle East and is often represented as the final throes of British imperialism. However, as this insightful and compelling new book reveals, successive prime ministers have all sought to extend British influence in the Middle East and their actions have often led to a disastrous outcome.While Anthony Eden and Tony Blair are the two most prominent examples of prime ministers whose reputations have been ruined by their interventions in the region, they were not alone in taking significant risks in deploying British forces to the Middle East. There was an unspoken assumption that Britain could help solve its problems, even if only for the reason that British imperialism had created the problems in the first place.Drawing these threads together, Nigel Ashton explores the reasons why British leaders have been unable to resist returning to the mire of the Middle East, while highlighting the misconceptions about the region that have helped shape their interventions, and the legacy of history that has fuelled their pride and arrogance. Ultimately, he shows how their fears and insecurities made them into false prophets who conjured existential threats out of the sands of the Middle East.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 34mmItem Weight: 751gAuthor: Nigel AshtonGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: False Prophets
Title: False Prophets
Subtitle: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Su
ISBN-10: 178649325X
EAN: 9781786493255
ISBN: 9781786493255
Edition: Main
Release Date: 03/03/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Weight: 751g
Book Title: False Prophets : British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Atlantic Books, The Limited
Topic: Imperialism, Military / World War I, World, Middle East / General
Publication Year: 2022
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Author: Nigel Ashton
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
