Download or read book Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914-1956 written by Elizabeth Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years is a common measure of time in Middle Eastern history and fable, and for almost exactly that period - from th eBritish capture of Baghdad and Jerusalem in 1917 until the Suez crisis of 1956 - Great Britain was the paramount power in most of the Middle East. This book is about the establishment of that power, the uses to which it was put, and the reasons for its decline after 1945.