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The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948-56, by David R. Devereux (London: Macmillan, in assoc. with King's College London, 1990; pp. xi + 241.[pounds]35), is a well-researched and comprehensively documented account of the process by which the virtual British hegemony of the Middle East, which existed after the Second World War, was eroded almost to nothing as a result of the harsh realities of the post-war world as they affected Great Britain. One of the virtues of the book is that the author is content to record events as they occurred at the time without attempting a fraudulent God's eye view$based on the wisdom of hindsight. Immediately after …