On 8/31/2010 7:03 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good history of the Arab middle east in the Second World War? I am thinking in particular of the conflicts with the Lebanese and the French in Lebanon, the Iraq revolt of 1941 and any accounts of the Desert War from the Arab point of view. Histories or memoirs would be good.
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The Middle East in the War (George Kirk) is an old (1952) and very opinionated (Tory) book, but very detailed and comprehensive, covering the French especially with an anti-Gaullist slant.
SA