Naomi Bliven, 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. 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. Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal 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. Reid Beddow, Washington Post Book World Ambitious and splendid.An epic tale of ruin and disillusion.of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies. Jack Miles, Los Angeles Book Review Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written.Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval. Review Quotes Wonderful.No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East. A new afterword from Fromkin, written for this edition of the book, includes his invaluable, updated assessment of this region of the world today, and on what this history has to teach us. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day. 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. All of these conflicts-including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraqs competing sects-are rooted in the regions political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Book Synopsis 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.

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