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Author Fromkin, David.

Title A peace to end all peace : creating the modern Middle East, 1914-1922 / David Fromkin.

Publication Info. New York : H. Holt, [1989]
©1989

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  327.41    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  956 FROMKIN    DUE 04-18-24
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  327.41056 FROMKIN    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  327.4105 F931P2    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  956 FRO    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 635 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-620) and index.
Contents 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 East question
Subject Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1914-1945.
Middle East -- History -- 1914-1923.
ISBN 0805008578
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