The man who created the Middle East: a story of empire, conflict and the Sykes-Picot agreement 9780008121907, 9780008121921, 0008121907
The story of the catastrophic British mishandling of the Middle East, told through the career of Sir Mark Sykes - Edward
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English Pages 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Year 2016
Table of contents :
Introduction --
Prologue: an exhumation --
The parents --
Trials and tribulations --
Through five Turkish provinces --
South Africa --
Coming of age --
Return to the East --
Family life --
A seat in the house --
War --
Kitchener and the Middle East --
The Sykes-Picot Agreement --
Zionism --
The Balfour Declaration --
Worked to death --
Epilogue: the legacy.
Introduction --
Prologue: an exhumation --
The parents --
Trials and tribulations --
Through five Turkish provinces --
South Africa --
Coming of age --
Return to the East --
Family life --
A seat in the house --
War --
Kitchener and the Middle East --
The Sykes-Picot Agreement --
Zionism --
The Balfour Declaration --
Worked to death --
Epilogue: the legacy.
- Author / Uploaded
- Sykes
- Christopher Simon;Sykes
- Mark
