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Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
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Title: Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
Author: James Barr
ISBN: 9780393070651
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 464
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: It was the middle of World War I. Two men--one, a visionary British politician (Mark Sykes), the other, a veteran French diplomat (François Georges-Picot)--secretly agreed to divide the Middle East. Britain would have "mandates" in newly created Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq; France in Lebanon and Syria. For the next thirty years, this divide would make uneasy neighbors of two great powers and irreparably shape the Middle East. James Barr combs recently declassified French and British government archives and unearths a shocking secret war and its powerful effect on the local Arabs and Jews. He follows politicians, diplomats, and spies through intrigue and espionage to show us T. E. Lawrence's stealth guerrilla terror campaigns, and he journeys behind closed doors to discover why Britain courted the Zionist movement. Meticulously well researched and character-driven, A Line in the Sand crescendos with the violent birth of Israel, all along the way brimming with insight into a historically volatile region.
Author: James Barr
ISBN: 9780393070651
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 464
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: It was the middle of World War I. Two men--one, a visionary British politician (Mark Sykes), the other, a veteran French diplomat (François Georges-Picot)--secretly agreed to divide the Middle East. Britain would have "mandates" in newly created Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq; France in Lebanon and Syria. For the next thirty years, this divide would make uneasy neighbors of two great powers and irreparably shape the Middle East. James Barr combs recently declassified French and British government archives and unearths a shocking secret war and its powerful effect on the local Arabs and Jews. He follows politicians, diplomats, and spies through intrigue and espionage to show us T. E. Lawrence's stealth guerrilla terror campaigns, and he journeys behind closed doors to discover why Britain courted the Zionist movement. Meticulously well researched and character-driven, A Line in the Sand crescendos with the violent birth of Israel, all along the way brimming with insight into a historically volatile region.
