Between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East in an extraordinary role reversal. Lords of the Desert tells this story. von Barr, James

‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent ‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into...

The uneasy handover of dominant influence over the Middle East from Britain to America between 1945 and 1970 is considered in relation to the mass migration of international Jews to Israel in this insightful exploration of one of the key...