Professor Nigel Ashton: False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria [2022] hardback CRAFT Entries include: All-you-can-eat buffet

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Professor Nigel Ashton: False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria [2022] hardback CRAFT Entries include: All-you-can-eat buffet'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day' 'A truly masterly book A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter Hennessy Selected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022 Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Less than forty years later, the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to