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Good faith impugned by Barnaby Crowcroft

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By Barnaby Crowcroft
| The New Criterion Verified
Sir Alan Burns among bomber crews, date unknown, © Imperial War Museums. Books April 2022 Sir Alan Burns among bomber crews, date unknown, © Imperial War Museums. by Barnaby Crowcroft A review of The Last Imperialist Sir Alan Burns’s Epic Defense of the British Empire by Bruce Gilley. A few years ago, at a conference in England on the history of empire, we had a lecture by a retired civil servant who had once served as the governor of one of Britain’s few remaining overseas territories.
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Book Review 'Spymaster of Baghdad': Iraqi Spies Who Helped Defeat ISIS

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By Barnaby Crowcroft
| National Review Verified
An Iraqi soldiers walks past an ISIS emblem during fighting north of Mosul, Iraq, January 2017.
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Review of Islamic Empires by Justin Marozzi

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By Barnaby Crowcroft, Christopher F. Rufo
| City Journal Verified
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization, by Justin Marozzi (Allen Lane, 512 pp., $26.89) Preoccupation with our own demise is a perennial feature of human history. From Herodotus through Josephus to Ibn Khaldun, all were captivated with the ways in which states that “were once great have now become small,” as Herodotus put it, or how cities as glorious as Jerusalem under the Temple could be reduced by foreign occupation or disease.
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