by David Fromkin
An excellent account of how the allied victors of the Great War created the modern Middle East and set the stage for the violence and upheaval that plague the region to this day.
If only our leadership had read this book before Iraq, maybe we would have been better prepared for the end of the war. Clearly the allies were not ready for the end of WWI and the Mid-East has suffered for it. The allies did not understand tribal, clan, regional, religious affiliations then and we...
If only our leadership had read this book before Iraq, maybe we would have been better prepared for the end of the war. Clearly the allies were not ready for the end of WWI and the Mid-East has suffered for it. The allies did not understand tribal, clan, regional, religious affiliations then and we...
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