Book review: False prophets: British leaders’ fateful fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Nigel Ashton

In False Prophets: British Leaders’ Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria, Nigel Ashton offers a new history of how successive British governments have engaged with the Middle East and North Africa from the Suez Crisis to the Syrian Civil War. Geraint Hughes strongly recommends this comprehensive, authoritative and engaging account to readers interested in the history of British foreign policy and to specialists on the Middle East. False Prophets: British Leaders’ Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria. Nigel Ashton. Atlantic Books. 2022.