Allenby: Making the Modern Middle East

by C. Brad Faught

Overview

Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, as he became later, was the principal British military figure in the Middle East from 1917 to 1919. He fulfilled a similar proconsular role in Egypt from the latter year until 1925. In these two roles Allenby's eight years in the Middle East were of great impact, and in probing his life an especially revealing window can be found through which to observe closely and understand more fully the history that has resulted in the terminal roil afflicting the Middle East and international affairs today.

In this biography Brad Faught explores the events and actions of Allenby's life, examining his thinking on both the British Empire and the post-World War I international order. Faught brings clarity to Allenby's decisive impact on British imperial policy in the making of the modern Middle East, and thereby on the long arc of the region's continuing and controversial place in world affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350136472
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/25/2020
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

C. Brad Faught is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Global Studies at Tyndale University, Toronto, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. He is the author of, among other books, Into Africa: The Imperial Life of Margery Perham (2012) and Kitchener: Hero and Anti-Hero (2016).

Table of Contents

List of figures viii

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xii

Chapter 1 Boy to Man: Becoming an Officer and a Gentleman, 1861-99 1

Chapter 2 The Second South African War and Beyond, 1899-1914 13

Chapter 3 On the Western Front, 1914-17 27

Chapter 4 'With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia', 1917 41

Chapter 5 Damascus Gained and Victory Won, 1918 79

Chapter 6 Imperial Proconsul in Egypt, 1919-21 111

Chapter 7 Riding the Whirlwind: Egyptian Nationalism, 1922-5 147

Chapter 8 Allenby in Repose, 1925-36, and in Retrospect 173

Afterword: Allenby and the Middle East Today 187

Chronology 193

Notes 194

Bibliography 217

Index 225

Editorial Reviews

Professor Faught has written a concise, stimulating account of the life and times of Allenby. He communicates the romanticism and complexity of the conflicts in which he was embroiled, and brings his story to a new audience at a time when the Middle East is again, as so often, headline news.
Military History Matters Magazine

This book presents an exquisitely thorough biography of Edmund Allenby (1861-1936), the British military and diplomatic leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Recounting Allenby's life, Faught gives us a window into the geopolitical, colonial strife of the time, including the run-up to Allenby's conquest of Palestine in 1917 and eventual installation as Governor of Egypt in 1919 ... This is a history lover's dream of a book.
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