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A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East - Softcover

Barr, James

 
9781847394576: A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847394574 ISBN 13: 9781847394576
Verlag: Simon + Schuster UK, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent

‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ Spectator

A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East.

In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; François Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. They drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier, and together remade the map of the Middle East, with Britain’s 'mandates' of Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq, and France's in Lebanon and Syria.

Over the next thirty years a sordid tale of violence and clandestine political manoeuvring unfolded, told here through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. Using declassified papers from the British and French archives, James Barr vividly depicts the covert, deadly war of intrigue and espionage between Britain and France to rule the Middle East, and reveals the shocking way in which the French finally got their revenge.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Barr has worked in politics, at the Daily Telegraph, in the City, at the British Embassy in Paris, and is currently a visiting fellow at King's College, London. He read modern history at Oxford has travelled widely in the Middle East. His previous book, A Line in the Sand, is also available from Simon & Schuster. He lives with his wife and two children in south London.

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The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East

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Verlag
Simon + Schuster UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847394574
ISBN 13 
9781847394576
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
464
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