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The British Defence of

Egypt 1935–1940

ers a comprehensive and challenging analysis of the British

defence of Egypt, primarily against fascist Italy, in the critical lead-up period

to the Second World War. The security of Egypt, a constant of British

imperial strategy, is a curiously neglected dimension of the still burning

appeasement debate. Yet it was a factor which demanded constant consider-

ation by British policy-makers and

gured in the crises of the period over

Abyssinia, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Poland. By giving equal weight to

the perspectives and assessments of the men on the spot, Steven Morewood

adds to the originality of his interpretation by suggesting the old view should

be reinstated: that Mussolini should and could have been stopped in his

empire-building at the Abyssinian hurdle. Thereafter, as Nazi Germany

tore the Versailles peace settlement to shreds, the drift to war accelerated

as British resolve and credibility were brought into question. The fascist

dictators in Rome and Berlin held no respect for weakness and Mussolini

became the conduit through which Hitler could apply pressure to a sensitive

British interest through reinforcing Libya at critical moments.

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Steven Morewood is lecturer in International History in the School of

Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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