Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East by James Barr

Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East

James Barr

464 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
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A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the present day We usually assume that Arab nationalism brought about the end of the British Empire in th...

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