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The Chiefs
"The Chiefs of Staff play a little publicised but crucial part in the higher machinery of government. At times mocked by a Press that knows they are duty bound to avoid the political arena, the Chiefs' vital importance is only revealed to the world in time of war, and then only in part. For the first time this book tells the story of the British Chiefs of Staff from the mid-19th Century up to the present day. It recounts their successes and failures in managing the services through the two World Wars, the Korean War, Suez, the withdrawal from Empire and finally the Falklands campaign." "The British failures of the Crimean War compared so unfavourably with the professionalism of the German Ge...
Withdrawal from Empire
Jackson giver en fremstilling af de sikkerhedspolitiske betragtninger og militære operationer, der i efterkrigstiden markerede Storbritannien vanskelige og komplicerede nedstigning fra at være et verdensrige til at blive en vesteuropæisk nationalmagt.
The Rock of the Gibraltarians
Forfatteren var britisk guvernør i Gibraltar 1978-1982 og har her skrevet om den berømte halvøs og dens befolknings historie fra de tidligste tider til vore dage.
Britain's Defence Dilemma
Britain is an off-shore island of the US and Europe, prizing independence yet maintaining the strongest possible links with both. Based on many years in Whitehall and interviews with key military personnel and civil servants, General Sir William Jackson reveals the formation of British defence policy from the Suez fiasco of 1957 through to the Falklands campaign, the shifting strategic balances of the nuclear world and the decline of the communist system today. This is an authoritative, challenging insider's view of British defence policy, its development and future role.
Britain's Triumph and Decline in the Middle East
Rich in detail, this book gives a fascinating account of the British military campaigns in the Middle East in the Twentieth Century. After the First World War the map of the Middle East was redrawn out of the ruins of the discarded Ottoman Empire. After the defeat of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, the inevitable consequences of the conflicting promises the British had previously made to both the Jews and Arabs began to boil over. Arab and Jewish nationalism became unbridled and the United States entered the fray. Debilitated by the losses caused by two wars, Britain's will and capacity to rule weakened and an inevitable political and economic decline began. As the sun set on the British Empire Whitehall was forced, step by step, to surrender dominance to Washington. Britain's Triumph and Decline in the Middle East charts a century in which Britain enjoyed victory in two world wars, but suffered the collapse of the Empire and the previous world order. Now, with Britain's role in this new order in mind, William Jackson looks at the contribution of the British to the multinational force that won the Gulf War and considers Britain's future role in the Middle East.
The Pomp of Yesterday
From the elimination of the French presence in Bengal and the Carnatic in 1756 to the defeat of the Turco-German Jihad by Allenby in 1918, the control of the roads to India, by land and sea, was a major preoccupation of British defence policy.
The Mediterranean and Middle East: pt. 1. Victory in the Mediterranean 1st April to 4th June 1944
The last of eight volumes in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres, this book tells the final stage of the story from November 1944 to May 1945. It details the end of the war in Greece and Yugoslavia, but concentrates on the stubborn struggle in northern Italy. The narrative opens with the aborting of Field-Marshal Alexander s plan for a quick thrust to Vienna across north-eastern Italy, and describes poltical and other difficulties encountered in co-operating with Tito s Yugoslav partisans. Tito s fellow-Communist E.A.M/E.L.A.S partisans in Greece attempted to take power in Athens in December 1944...
The Battle for North Africa, 1940-43
The history of the North African Campaign is the story of an army forging itself into a superb fighting force from the debris of defeat and discouragement
