8vo. 337 pp., frontis. b/w, 7 maps of which 1 folding at rear, 9 photographic b/w plates hors text, cloth, index, browning to endpapers, small spot on outer edges, otherwise copy clean inside and in very good condition, Faber & Faber, London, 1957.

Synopsis

A picture of the Middle East at the time of the Suez crisis by the well known correspondent of the “Times’.
James Morris (a journalist with the Times) covers the vast, colourful and dramatic ground of Egypt and Sudan; Lebanon, Syria, Jordan; the Arabian Peninsula; Iraq and Iran. With superb liveliness and lucidity, he traces the complicated and shifting patterns in this most tangled of webs: the Anglo-American oil war; the American Soviet struggle for dominance; the explosive impact of Nasser’s nationalism; irrigation and reclamation; Islam; Israel. It is brilliantly observed and magnificently written; a book of major importance for today.