A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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 geo...