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Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy.

Publication: History Review
Publication Date: 01-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy Laura M. James Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 178 pages, 45[pounds sterling] ISBN 0-230-00643-0

'I did not find what I expected.' President Nasser's dying words summarise Laura James' argument that, when conducting foreign policy, Nasser was trapped by his images of the enemy. Dr. James' well-written and stimulating first book shows how disastrously mistaken these images usually were. Nasser relied too much on Field-Marshal Amer, on 'extravagant domestic propaganda' and on his own hunches.

Sometimes this did not matter. Nasser survived the Suez episode of Autumn 1956 because the Americans, contrary to his predictions, came to...

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