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James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914–1948 (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012), 450 pp. ISBN 978-03-93-07065-1

James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914–1948 (New... James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, ­ (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, ), pp. ISBN - A Line in the Sand, which looks at the overt and covert Anglo-French struggle in the Middle East from the Sykes-Picot Agreement in to the war in Palestine, is worth reading because of its subject and the archival sources it utilizes. In the prologue to his book, James Barr, a journalist by profession, dramatically describes how in the summer of , his eyes "bulged" when he came across a report from early , written by an MI security officer. The officer, recently returned from the Middle East, alleged that the French authorities in the Levant were arming and financing "Jewish terrorists" fighting against British forces in Palestine. That information had been given to him by an MI officer who in turn claimed that it came from a "Top Secret" source. Barr concludes that "while the British were fighting and dying alongside the Americans to liberate France, their supposed allies the French were secretly backing Jewish efforts to kill British soldiers and officials in Palestine." The history of the rivalry between France http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bustan: The Middle East Book Review Brill

James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914–1948 (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012), 450 pp. ISBN 978-03-93-07065-1

Zamir, Meir
Bustan: The Middle East Book Review , Volume 3 (2): 185 – Jan 1, 2012
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Brill
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© Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1878-5301
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1878-5328
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10.1163/18785328-00032010
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James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, ­ (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, ), pp. ISBN - A Line in the Sand, which looks at the overt and covert Anglo-French struggle in the Middle East from the Sykes-Picot Agreement in to the war in Palestine, is worth reading because of its subject and the archival sources it utilizes. In the prologue to his book, James Barr, a journalist by profession, dramatically describes how in the summer of , his eyes "bulged" when he came across a report from early , written by an MI security officer. The officer, recently returned from the Middle East, alleged that the French authorities in the Levant were arming and financing "Jewish terrorists" fighting against British forces in Palestine. That information had been given to him by an MI officer who in turn claimed that it came from a "Top Secret" source. Barr concludes that "while the British were fighting and dying alongside the Americans to liberate France, their supposed allies the French were secretly backing Jewish efforts to kill British soldiers and officials in Palestine." The history of the rivalry between France

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Bustan: The Middle East Book Review – Brill

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