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A peace to end all peace : the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East

David Fromkin
An account of how the modern Middle East came into being, and why it is in upheaval, focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922
Print Book, English, 2001
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H. Holt, New York, 2001
History
635 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780805068849, 0805068848
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The last days of old Europe
The legacy of the great game in Asia
The Middle East before the war
The young Turks urgently seek an ally
Winston Churchill on the eve of war
Churchill seizes Turkey's warships
An intrigue at the Sublime Porte
Kitchener takes command
Kitchener's lieutenants
Kitchener sets out to capture Islam
India protests
The man in the middle
The Turkish commanders almost lose the war
Kitchener allows Britain to attack Turkey
On to victory at the Dardanelles
Russia's grab for Turkey
Defining Britain's goals in the Middle East
At the narrows of fortune
The warriors
The politicians
The light that failed
Creating the Arab bureau
Making promises to the Arabs
Making promises to the European allies
Turkey's triumph at the Tigris
Behind enemy lines
Kitchener's last mission
Hussein's revolt
The fall of the allied governments : Britain and France
The overthrow of the Czar
The new world
Lloyd George's Zionism
Toward the Balfour Declaration
The promised land
Jerusalem for Christmas
The road to Damascus
The battle for Syria
The parting of the ways
By the shores of Troy
The ticking clock
Betrayal
The unreal world of the peace conferences
The troubles begin, 1919-1921
Egypt, the winter of 1918-1919
Afghanistan, the spring of 1919
Arabia, the spring of 1919
Turkey, January 1920
Syria and Lebanon, the spring and summer of 1920
Eastern Palestine (Transjordan), 1920
Palestine : Arabs and Jews, 1920
Mesopotamia (Iraq), 1920
Persia (Iran), 1920
Unmasking Britain's enemies
The Soviet challenge in the Middle East
Moscow's goals
A death in Bukhara
Winston Churchill takes charge
Churchill and the question of Palestine
The alliances come apart
A Greek tragedy
The settlement of the Middle Eastern question