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Offers an account of Britain's painful withdrawal from Egypt in the 1950s. This book explores the interaction of politics, diplomacy, strategic planning and guerrilla warfare to explain how the largest military base in the world - and the defining feature of Britain's global power status - was relinquished.

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Middle East Journal , Spring 2007 Thornhill makes a distinctive and astute contribution to the discussion by a process of subtle interrogation rather than revisionist tub-thumping ... Thornhill can be congratulated for producing an illuminating study of an important episode in the dissolution of Britain's formal empire in the Middle East.

Middle East Journal , Spring 2007 <br> Thornhill makes a distinctive and astute contribution to the discussion by a process of subtle interrogation rather than revisionist tub-thumping ... Thornhill can be congratulated for producing an illuminating study of an important episode in the dissolution of Britain's formal empire in the Middle East. <br>

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MICHAEL T. THORNHILL PhD is an authority and published author on Egypt, the Suez Crisis and the post war Middle East. He is the academic director of the Boston Universities (European Study Abroad) organisation. Michael has degrees from Leeds University and the LSE, and a PhD from Oxford, where he now lives.

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