Beschreibung:
James Barr has worked in politics, at the Daily Telegraph, in the City, at the British Embassy in Paris, and is currently a visiting fellow at King's College, London. He read modern history at Oxford has travelled widely in the Middle East. His previous book, A Line in the Sand, is also available from Simon & Schuster. He lives with his wife and two children in south London.
The uneasy handover of dominant influence over the Middle East from Britain to America between 1945 and 1970 is considered in relation to the mass migration of international Jews to Israel in this insightful exploration of one of the key shifts in recent history.