Download or read book Britain and the Middle East in the 1930's written by Michael J. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book focus on the security of the British position in the Middle East between 1935 and 1939. In 1935 Britain was still able to rush reinforcements to the Middle East to forestall hostilities towards Egypt. However, by 1939 the international situation had changed irrevocably.