Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion

During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the ''cornerstone'' of Britain''s imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab Legion, including a major accession of Glubb''s private papers, Graham Jevon examines and revises Britain''s post-1945 retreat from empire in the Middle East. Jevon details how Glubb''s command of the Ara...