Why read Policy of Deceit?

Book cover of Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939

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'A magnificent new book ... a major historical achievement'

Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye

In this eye-opening book, Peter Shambrook delves into the secret correspondence between the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, and the Sharif of Mecca during the First World War. McMahon promised the Sharif an…

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Geoffrey P. Nash

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Do governments sometimes want to prevent us from learning the truth? How long does such truth remain hidden before it forces its way out into the open? Or do they rely on us in due course forgetting all about it?

This book sets out the story of how an inconvenient truth was concealed from the British people in the period just after World War One… and continues to be obfuscated by the British Government today. It is a journey through a trail of secret documents relating to a highly sensitive incident in modern diplomatic history that has led to events…

From Geoffrey's 3 favorite reads in 2023.