From the Wings - Amman Memoirs 1947-1951

List of contents

Chapter 1 Clearing the Decks; Chapter 2 On The Brink; Chapter 3 The First Round; Chapter 4 Lydda and Ramleh; Chapter 5 The Government of All-Palestine; Chapter 6 A Side Show; Chapter 7 War in the Air; Chapter 8 Armistice; Chapter 9 Incidents; Chapter 10 Talal; Chapter 11 Treachery; Chapter 12 The Succession;

About the author

Alec KirkbrideSir

Summary

First Published in 1976. Sir Alec Kirkbride was born in Nottinghamshire in 1897, but grew up in Egypt. He was an army officer from 1916 to 1920 and then Deputy Resident in Transjodran from 1927 to 37. This book is a collection of his Amman Memoirs 1947-1951 when he was serving as the Ambassador to the United Kingdom to The Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946 and played an important diplomatic role during the Arab-Israeli war.

Product details

• Authors: Alec Kirkbride, Kirkbride Alec
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.1976
• EAN: 9780714630618
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-3061-8
• No. of pages: 166
• Weight: 470 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Jordan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Biography: royalty, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Middle Eastern history, C 1945 To C 1960, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern