Titlebook: British Counterinsurgency; From Palestine to No John Newsinger Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 200

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Introduction, since the end of the Second World War. These have produced a large celebratory literature, ranging from military memoirs, most recently the avalanche of SAS memoirs, to scholarly histories and analyses, many of them of a high quality. The overall perception, it is fair to say, is that Britain’s cou

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At War with Zion, in Palestine. This challenge, tacitly supported by the United States, was to compromise the British Empire’s overall position in the Middle East and thereby begin the process of its dissolution in the region. This failure to overcome the Zionist challenge is one of the most humiliating episodes in

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Cyprus and EOKA,Defence, Harold Macmillan, the ‘Colonial Office seemed surprised’.. As one Conservative MP commented only six months earlier: ‘It seems inconceivable that the Cypriots should become vicious like the Egyptians.’. The British had convinced themselves over the years that the Greek Cypriot population we

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The Unknown Wars: Oman and Dhofar, British military personnel. Nevertheless, they were both important, first of all for maintaining a British presence and British influence in the Middle East and, secondly, for the part they played in the fortunes of the Special Air Service (SAS). The Jebel Akhdar campaign of 1958–59 arguably saved

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,The Long War: Northern Ireland, 1969–97, still part of the United Kingdom. The consequences have been devastating. Nearly 2 per cent of the province’s population have been killed or injured since fighting began. If the ratio of fatalities to population were to be reproduced for the United Kingdom as a whole there would by now have been so

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