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Castles made of sand : a century of Anglo-American espionage and intervention in the Middle East
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Title
Castles made of sand : a century of Anglo-American espionage and intervention in the Middle East / Andre Gerolymatos.
ISBN
9780312355692 (alk. paper)
0312355696 (alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010.
Physical Description
xvi, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: Stories from the bazaar
Assassination
The Mahdi
The eclipse of imperial Islam
Jihad for all occasions
A new caliph
Middle East delusions : the Great Arab Revolt
Spies, adventurers, and religious warriors
Absolute faith : the Muslim Brotherhood and the politics of intelligence
The British-Jewish military alliance
Kill the mufti : politics and blowback
By blood and fire
The CIA and Nasser : a Muslim Billy Graham
The road to perdition : the Gehlen Organization
A new kind of war : subversive operations and the CIA
Nasser's Nazis
A legacy of coups : Anglo-American intervention in Syria
America's eyes in the Middle East : the CIA and Israeli intelligence
The Iranian jihad
Espionage, religion, and war in the Northwest Frontier
Pakistan's inter-service intelligence and organized terror in South Asia
Chronology
Dramatis personae.
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