A01=Michael T Thornhill
Author_Michael T Thornhill
Britain's global power status
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diplomacy
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france
gamal abdel nasser
guerilla warfare
israel
largest military base in the world
politics
second arab-israeli war
sinai war
suez canal
suez crisis
the battle of the canal zone
tripartite aggression
united kingsdom
western powers
withdrawal from egypt
Product details
- ISBN 9780750944472
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 2006
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Offers an account of Britain's painful withdrawal from Egypt in the 1950s. This book explores the interaction of politics, diplomacy, strategic planning and guerrilla warfare to explain how the largest military base in the world - and the defining feature of Britain's global power status - was relinquished.
MICHAEL T. THORNHILL PhD is an authority and published author on Egypt, the Suez Crisis and the post war Middle East. He is the academic director of the Boston Universities (European Study Abroad) organisation. Michael has degrees from Leeds University and the LSE, and a PhD from Oxford, where he now lives.
