A Peace To End All Peace

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East. -Jack Miles, Los Angeles Book ReviewPublished with a new afterword from the acclaimed author-the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created.The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts-including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects-are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War.In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping...