FIRST VICTORY: Britain’s Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941

In a bold book, former officer Robedrt Lyman argues that a string of British victories in Iraq and Syria in 1941 halted Hitler in his tracks and was the war’s true turning point.

At the beginning of 1941, Britain’s military prospects looked grim indeed. Hitler was the master of Europe - and about to invade Russia; and in the Middle East a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq and the equally pro-Nazi Vichy French regime in Syria menaced supply - especially oil- and communication channels to the hard-pressed British Empire. Former army officer Roberet Lyman shows how this dangerous situation was defused and reversed in a dramatic series of British victories that, he argues, was the war’s real turning point rather than the much-trumpeted later battle of El Alamein. Until now, these events have been overlooked by historians annd relegated to a footnote in history, but Lyman, in a gripping and convincing narrative restores them to their rightful place and shows how Britain laid the foundations for eventual victory in one eventful year.

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Product Code:	10550
Author:	Robert Lyman
ISBN:	978 1 84529 108 2
Format:	336pp, hb. Published Price £25.00
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