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MAAN ABU NOWAR, The Struggle for Independence 1939–1947: A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2001). Pp. 373. £35.00 MAAN ABU NOWAR, The Jordanian–Israeli War 1948–1951: A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2002). Pp. 526. £35.00
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Maan Abu Nowar, a member of a well-known family from Salt, joined the Arab Legion in 1943. In 1948, as a young lieutenant, he participated in the Palestine war. In 1957, as a colonel and commander of a brigade group, he was tried for involvement in a conspiracy against King Hussein (instigated by his cousin, Ali, the chief of the General Staff) but was acquitted. He retired from the army in 1972 as a major-general and commenced a second career as a diplomat and politician. Simultaneously, he pursued a third career—that of a prolific historian. In 1988, he gained a D.Phil. at Oxford for the study that constituted the basis of his book History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: The Creation and Development of Transjordan 1920–1929 (1989). His two recent books are a chronological and conceptual continuation of his first work.
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