The Foreign Office Handbooks: The Middle East

by WilliamRogerLouis (Introduction), ProtheroSirGeorge (Author), SirGeorgeProthero (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2018

  $451.74

  Put together under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office the aim of these handbooks was to provide British delegates to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 with detailed information on the geographical, economic, historical and political aspects of the countries concerned. The volumes offer a wealth of detailed information provided by the Intelligence Divisions of the Admiralty, the Military and the Foreign Office, and are both authoritative and remarkably accessible. The handbooks that make up this 3-volume set cover the countries and issues relating to the Middle East and North Africa, including Turkey, Syria, Persia and the Persian Gulf, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Armenia. The set is introduced by one of the world's foremost historians of the Middle East, William Roger Louis.