Volume 9 of the Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 mini-series
continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century
of military aviation in the Arab World. For those Arab nations which
had some degree of independence, the political, cultural and economic
strains seen during the Second World War continued to have a major
impact, not least upon their military forces. In Egypt, newly
independent Syria and Lebanon, and to a lesser extent in Iraq, great
effort was put into modernizing these forces. Sometimes this achieved
success but such efforts nevertheless failed to produce the degree of
improvement which had been hoped. In both Egypt and Iraq mistrust of
Great Britain may even have deepened while in Palestine the worsening
crisis resulted in a full-blown civil war between the Zionist settler
community and the indigenous Arab population. The British remained in
theoretical control of Palestine, yet it was becoming obvious that a
large part of the British government, British military establishment
and broader public were desperate to escape from the Palestine
Problem. It was also clear that the major Powers which dominated the
newly established United Nations Organization had no intention of
becoming militarily involved. Then came the official termination of
the British mandate over Palestine, the declaration of the State of
Israel and the start of official military intervention by the military
forces of several Arab states. Volume 9 covers its subject in greater
detail than has been done before because the authors had access to
previously unpublished official Arab military documents, supplemented
by translations of Arabic books and journal articles containing
official and personal accounts by those involved. As usual for this
mini-series, Volume 9 is abundantly illustrated with photographs from
previously unused, or very rarely used, private and official sources.
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ISBN
9781804515266
Publisert
2024
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Vendor
Helion and Company
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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