Volume 32, Number 3 · February 28, 1985
Wishful Thinking
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism
by William Roger Louis
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 803 pp., $55.00
This is an important and well-written scholarly work, based mainly on official and unofficial archival material, and covering the evolution of British policy toward Britain's Middle Eastern possessions and their neighbors during the six years following the end of the Second World War. It is a big book—more than 800 octavo pages long, including the index—and it provides much more detail about its subject than has been available up to now in published form. One of the main themes—which Professor Louis handles sensitively and illuminatingly—is the constant interaction of British and American policy making in relation to Greece, Turkey, Iran, and Palestine, and—to a somewhat lesser extent—in the other countries of the region, during the period.
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