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The Commander - Fawzi al-Qawiqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 (Hardcover)
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The Commander - Fawzi al-Qawiqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 (Hardcover)
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Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an
intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of
Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman
Army, he fought the British in World War I and won an Iron Cross.
In the 1920s, he mastered the art of insurgency and helped lead a
massive uprising against the French authorities in Syria. A decade
later, he reappeared in Palestine, where he helped direct the Arab
Revolt of 1936. When an effort to overthrow the British rulers of
Iraq failed, he moved to Germany, where he spent much of World War
II battling his fellow exile, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who had
accused him of being a British spy. In 1947, Qawuqji made a daring
escape from Allied-occupied Berlin, and sought once again to shape
his region's history. In his most famous role, he would command the
Arab Liberation Army in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. In this
well-crafted, definitive biography, Laila Parsons tells Qawuqji's
dramatic story and sets it in the full context of his turbulent
times. Following Israel's decisive victory, Qawuqji was widely
faulted as a poor leader with possibly dubious motives.The
Commander shows us that the truth was more complex: although he
doubtless made some strategic mistakes, he never gave up fighting
for Arab independence and unity, even as those ideals were
undermined by powers inside and outside the Arab world. In
Qawuqji's life story we find the origins of today's turmoil in the
Arab Middle East.
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