In Defence of Britain's Middle Eastern Empire (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as the perfect leader, a man who worked by influence rather than by loud direction. He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything. It was not possible to say where Clayton was and was not, and how much really belonged to him. This is the first biography of General Sir Gilbert Clayton (1875-1929), Britain's pre-eminent man-on-the-spotduring the formative years of the modern Middle East. Serving as a soldier, administrator and diplomat in ten different Middle Eastern countries during a 33-year Middle Eastern career, Clayton is best known as the Director of British Intelligence in Cairo during the Great War (1914-16), and as the instigator and sponsor of the Arab Revolt against the Turks. Dedicated to the preservation of Britain's Middle Eastern empire, Clayton came to realize that in the transformed post-war world Britain could ill afford to control all aspects of the emerging
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