Purchase
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today
Owl Books
October 2001
Featuring: TH Lawrence
636 pages
ISBN: 0805068848
Trade Size (reprint)
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction | Historical
In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of
rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties.
All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between
Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down,
in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will
continue to live with its political inheritance: the
arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the
region by the Allies after the First World War. In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and
why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of
the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that
eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel,
Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of
1914 to 1922, when all-even an alliance between Arab
nationalism and Zionism-seemed possible he raises questions
about what might have been done differently, and answers
questions about why things were done as they were. The
current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in
these events of 85 years ago.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025