The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Britain and the United States were closely involved in this question, yet their respective roles have not received the detailed historical attention which they merit. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will analyze British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.
The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Britain and the Unite...
This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as General Sir Gerald Templar, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir Norman Brook, the Secretary to the Cabinet and Patrick Dean, the head of the Permanent Under Secretary's department of the Foreign Office. The book incorporates 1956 releases from the Public Record under the Open Government Initiative, to reassess the role of officials and the process of policymaking, through the analysis of the activities and role of a range of players.
This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as General Sir Gerald Templar, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir No...
This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as General Sir Gerald Templar, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir Norman Brook, the Secretary to the Cabinet and Patrick Dean, the head of the Permanent Under Secretary's department of the Foreign Office. The book incorporates 1956 releases from the Public Record under the Open Government Initiative, to reassess the role of officials and the process of policymaking, through the analysis of the activities and role of a range of players.
This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as General Sir Gerald Templar, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir No...
The Lost Oasis tells the true story behind The English Patient. An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura Club, a group of desert explorers and adventurers who indulged in desert travel by early-model-motor cars and airplanes, and who searched for lost desert oases and ancient cities of vanished civilizations. In reality, they were mapping the desert for military reasons and espionage. The club's members came from countries that soon would be enemies: England and the Allied Forces v. Italy and Germany. When war erupted in 1939, Ralph Bagnold founded the...
The Lost Oasis tells the true story behind The English Patient. An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura Club,...
The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Britain and the United States were closely involved in this question, yet their respective roles have not received the detailed historical attention which they merit. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will seek to analyse British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.
The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Britain and the Unite...
This book is the first study of the role of British Ambassadors in shaping Anglo-American relations during the first generation of the 'special relationship'. As well as showing how ambassadors wielded influence in Washington and helped to formulate British foreign policy, it offers insights into the role of the embassy in modern diplomacy.
This book is the first study of the role of British Ambassadors in shaping Anglo-American relations during the first generation of the 'special relati...
The sale at auction in Edinburgh in 2010 of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious crimes of the Victorian era. Captain William Gill and his companions, the noted Arabist Professor Edward Palmer of Cambridge University and a young naval lieutenant, Harold Charrington, were killed in an ambush by Bedouin Arabs in the Sinai Desert in 1883. The trio had been tasked with informal diplomacy in the region, specifically to prevent the Arab sheikhs from joining the Egyptian rebels and to secure their non-interference with the...
The sale at auction in Edinburgh in 2010 of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious...
