Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• List of Maps
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: defending Egypt in the era of appeasement
• The lingering strategic significance of Egypt
• The appeasement debate and Egypt
• The nature of the Italian threat to Egypt
• Sir Miles Lampson and the security of Egypt
• The decision making process
• 1 The British defence of Egypt in the interwar period: strategic imperatives and rationale
• No surrender
• The role of Egypt in imperial defence
• 2 The defence of Egypt and the onset of the Italo-Abyssinian Emergency
• The emergence of the Italian threat
• The origins of the Italo-Abyssinian Crisis: The Egyptian dimension
• The British response to the growing Abyssinian Crisis
• The position in Egypt
• Countdown to war
• 3 Defending Egypt during the Italo-Abyssinian Emergency: first phase, August-December 1935
• Policy imperatives and dilemmas
• Preparations for war
• A clash of attitudes: the men on the spot and the Chiefs of Staff
• The imperial defence dimension and the Hoare-Laval Pact
• 4 Defending Egypt during the Italo-Abyssinian Emergency: second phase, January-July 1936
• The capacity to defend the Egyptian power base
• Too far and too fast
• An oil embargo: so near and yet so far
• The Suez Canal closure issue
• The end of the emergency
• 5 The making of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of Friendship and Alliance: The military aspects
• The background to negotiations
• Commencing negotiations
• The military negotiations
• The finale
• As assessment
• 6 Securing an exposed flank: the defence of Egypt in British diplomacy, June 1936 - April 1938
• The Debate over the way forward
• Defence planning priorities and Egypt
• Assessing the Italian threat
• From Eden's resignation to the Easter Pact
• 7 'Bloodless War'
• The Egyptian dimension of the Munich Crisis
• The aftermath
• More harm than good the Rome visit
• Bloodless war begins
• Preparing for war
• Improving the intelligence picture
• 8 The Approach of war in the Mediterranean
• A summer of tension
• Anglo-french incongruity
• Preparing for battle
• War comes closer
• The onset of war
• 9 Implementing the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance: Anglo-Egyptian relations
• Implrementing the Treaty : immediate achievements and complications
• A changed leadership
• Munich and after
• The power struggle in Egypt
• The lead up to war in Europe
• Egypt stays out
• The lead up to war in the mediterranean
• The removal of Ali Maher
• 10 The Suez Canal and the defence of the Far East, 1919-1940
• The origins of the Suez Canal Defence Plan
• The advent of war in the Mediterranean
• The canal at war
• Italo-German-Japanese motives for closing Suez
• 11 Conclusion
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index