Author: BARR, JAMES
Title: Lords of the destert. The battle between the United States and Great Britain for supremacy in the modern Middle East
Description: New York: basic Books, 2018 (1st ed.); 8vo (24.5cm), vi+454pp., black-white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. As new. ¶ The author "contends that the US [not Arabic nationalism] was the driving force behind the British exit. Though the two nations were allies, the Americans were drawn to the region for reasons of commerce and ideology, and they found themselves at odds with the British over just about every question." (blurb)

Keywords: Middle East foreign policy UK foreign policy USA international relations