Castles made of sand
Subtitle: a century of Anglo-American espionage and intervention in the Middle East
By: Andre Gerolymatos
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780312355692
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Stories from the bazaar; title: Assassination; title: The Mahdi; title: The eclipse of imperial Islam; title: Jihad for all occasions; title: A new caliph; title: Middle East delusions : the Great Arab Revolt; title: Spies, adventurers, and religious warriors; title: Absolute faith : the Muslim Brotherhood and the politics of intelligence; title: The British-Jewish military alliance; title: Kill the mufti : politics and blowback; title: By blood and fire; title: The CIA and Nasser : a Muslim Billy Graham; title: The road to perdition : the Gehlen Organization; title: A new kind of war : subversive operations and the CIA; title: Nasser's Nazis; title: A legacy of coups : Anglo-American intervention in Syria; title: America's eyes in the Middle East : the CIA and Israeli intelligence; title: The Iranian jihad; title: Espionage, religion, and war in the Northwest Frontier; title: Pakistan's inter-service intelligence and organized terror in South Asia; title: Chronology; title: Dramatis personae.