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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
Author: David Fromkin
Binding: Paperback
Published: 01 September, 2001
ISBN: 0805068848
$14.00
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by: David Fromkin
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0 
Excellent Journalistic Summary of the "Settlement of 1922": 
A Peace to End All Peace covers the events leading up to what Fromkin calls the "Settlement of 1922," when the political boundaries and institutions that were to predominate in the Middle East for most of the next century took shape. The book details the many factors involved, such as the rise of Zionism, the exaggerated sense of importance to the war effort of both Jews and Arabs that predominated in Europe, and the personal ambitions of the many actors on the stage, from Winston Churchill to Sherif... more info
Wonderful book!:
The very image of British delegates clustered around outdated maps of Mesopotamia and the Holy Land, muffling curses as they try to pin-point elusive rivers -- with Semitic names they can't even pronounce but which they intend to use as arbitrary borders of the new nations they're delineating -- is just one of the many poignant details Fromkin inserts in this marvelous history of the early 20th century Middle East.
The scope of the work is incredible. Fromkin opens with Churchill as First Lord of the... more info
Read this now! It could all happen again!:
It's a bit spooky to read this account of events in the Middle East during the decade that bracketed World War, while the occupation and rebuilding of post-Saddam Iraq is unfolding. The parallels (both good and not-so-good) are fascinating, almost to the point where one could substitute current names like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleeza Rice for Lord Kitchener, Lord Asquith and Sir Mark Sykes.
More than one scholar has suggested that this work from David Fromkin is a must-read for anyone... more info
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