The Hashemites: The Dream of Arabia

by Robert McNamara

The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of Lawrence of Arabia as portrayed in David Lean's 1962 film. But behind this romantic image lies a harsher reality of wartime expediency, double-dealing and dynastic ambition, which shaped the modern Middle East and laid the foundations of many of the conflicts that rack the region to this day. Arab nationalists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905791666
• ISBN13: 9781905791668
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Haus Pub.
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"