A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
$55.39
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2009
Summary
Published with a new afterword from the 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 Wo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780805088090 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0805088091 |
| Author: | David Fromkin, Kaya Oakes |
| Publisher: | Holt McDougal |
| Imprint: | Holt Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Edition: | 20th |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 517g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 134mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
“Wonderful…No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East.” – Los Angeles Book Review
“Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written…Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval.” –Washington Post Book World
“Ambitious and splendid…An epic tale of ruin and disillusion…of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies.” –The Wall Street Journal
”[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them….The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present.” –The New Yorker
“One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia….Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged–challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title.” –The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
David Fromkin
Historian David Fromkin is a professor at Boston University and the author of several acclaimed books of nonfiction. He lives in New York City.
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