In Defence of Britain's Middle Eastern Empire - 9781845197582

In Defence of Britain's Middle Eastern EmpireA Life of Sir Gilbert Clayton\nAuthor(s): Timothy Paris\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781845197582, 978-1845197582\nSynopsis\nT. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as \""the perfect leader\"", a man who \""worked by influence rather than by loud direction. He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything. It was not possible to say where Clayton was and was not, and how much really belonged to him\"". This is the first biography of General Sir Gilbert Clayton [tel], Britain's pre-eminent \""man-on-the-spot\"" during the formative years of the modern Middle East. Serving as a soldier, administrator and diplomat in ten different Middle Eastern countries during a 33-year Middle Eastern career, Clayton is best known as the Director of British Intelligence in Cairo during the Great War [tel], and as th.