Might Over Right provides a critical account of one of the most remarkable stories in the twenty century’s history of international relations – the history of how in the relatively short time of 30 years, Zionist leaders, managed, with the help of Western supporters but mainly the British, to wrestle a country away from its inhabitants, and in the process to profoundly affect the course of international relations and fundamentally transform the history of the Middle East.

This edition of The Dawn of a New Era in Syria captures the country at a difficult time in its history. First published in 1920, it describes the situation in Syria during the First World War and the beginnings of its recovery. At the time it was written, Syria was still waiting to discover how it was to be governed following the war, so the book is a unique snapshot of a country on the brink of a new political future.

‘The ancient and medieval records of the ‘Iraq have long since received and still receive from archaeologists and historians the care due to a very cradle of man’s civilization, to a centre of the earliest great Empires, to lands trodden by great captains of Greece and Rome, to the scene, for many generations, of the glories of ‘Abbasid Islam’.

Lieutenant Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob (1866–1936) was an officer in the British Army who spent the majority of his time in service in Yemen. First published in 1923, Kings of Arabia examines the history of Yemen from the 17th century to the aftermath of the First World War.