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Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958
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The Middle East Journal
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July 1, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright Middle East Institute Summer 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958, by Irene L. Gendzier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xxii + 378 pages. Notes to p. 422. Bibl. to p. 444. Index to p. 470. $39.95.
This is a comprehensive study of the first 15 years of post-World War II American diplomacy in the Middle East and its impact on developments in Lebanon. Irene L. Gendzier has amassed valuable information to research the factors that led to the landing of the US Marines in Beirut in 1958, and has given the reader a clear picture of Washington's relations with the Arab world at an important phase in the Cold War.
Notes From the Minefield is divided into ...