David Fromkin
Birth date: 1932-08-27
Died: 2017-06-11
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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...
Quite good but ends a little short. I would have wanted a little more insight and a little less historians have found this and this, others this and that. He doesn't really take a stand. Which is a little annoying for me.
This book disabuses one of the notions that WWI, The Great War, arrived unexpectedly. There were many factors at work, much politicking. In essence it was begun by Germany, which wanted to disrupt the growth of Russia as a threat and seize as much power and territory as possible while it still was i...
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