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The Empire strikes back: British intelligence in the Middle East 1940-1948
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24 minutes
Released:
Sep 19, 2015
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Podcast episode
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Prof. Meir Zamir, Middle East scholar at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of the newly published The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East: Intelligence and Decolonization, 1940-1948. He talks to host Gilad Halpern about efforts of British intelligence officials, sometimes unbeknown to their government, to "advance" British interests in the Middle East at the expense of the new order that was shaping the region in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
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Released:
Sep 19, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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