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Author: Trevor Royle Publisher: ISBN: 9780349103440 Category : Jordan Languages : en Pages : 525
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This is a biography of Sir John Bagot Glubb, Glubb Pasha, who was best known as the Commander of the Arab Legion. Appointed in 1930 to pacify warring Bedouin tribes in Jordan, he then led them in distinguished service in Iraq and Syria.
Author: Peter Young Publisher: Osprey Publishing ISBN: 9780850450842 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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In 1921, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Gerald Peake formed the Arab Legion as a police force in the former British protectorate of Transjordan. The Legion's main roles were to keep order among Transjordian tribes and safeguard the villagers from Bedouins. In subsequent years, under the leadership of Glubb Pasha, the Arab Legion was transformed into the best-trained of all Arab armies. This richly illustrated book examines the history of the Arab Legion, detailing the infantry, supporting arms and services, and air, sea, police and national guard forces. It also profiles leaders, like Pasha, who were influential in the evolution of this force.
Author: Graham Jevon Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316833968 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the 'cornerstone' of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab Legion, including a major accession of Glubb's private papers, Graham Jevon examines and revises Britain's post-1945 retreat from empire in the Middle East. Jevon details how Glubb's command of the Arab Legion secured British and Jordanian interests during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, answering questions that have dogged historians of this conflict for decades. He reveals how the Arab Legion was transformed, by Cold War concerns, from an internal Jordanian security force to a quasi-division within the British Army. Jevon also sheds new light on the succession crisis following King Abdullah's assassination, and uses previously unseen documents to challenge accepted contentions concerning King Hussein's dismissal of Glubb, the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the nature of Britain's imperial decline.
Author: Graham Jevon
Author: Graham Jevon
Author: James Lunt
Author: Sir John Bagot Glubb
Author: Trevor Royle
Author: Sir John Bagot Glubb
Author: Peter Young
Author: John Bagot Glubb
Author: Sir John Bagot Glubb
Author: Sir John Bagot Glubb
Author: Graham Jevon