Britain and the Middle East

Sir Reader Bullard was H.M. Minister (afterwards ambassador) at Tehran 1939–46. He started in the Levant Consular Service in Turkey, went on into Iraq in World War I and after, then the Hejaz, Greece, Ethiopia, Russia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia (where, a pilgrim, he dealt with pilgrims and attained Ministerial rank), and finally became Ambassador in Persia in World War II.

• Introduction 1. Pilgrims and Crusaders 2. The Merchant Adventurers 3. The Beginnings of the Eastern Question 4. Drang nach Osten 5. The First World War 6. Between the Wars 7. The Second World War and After 8. Epilogue

Review of the first publication:‘… [this book] will be indispensable alike to the general reader and to the specialist student of Middle Easter affairs. The story if told with erudition, humour, and wisdom.’