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A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
Engelsk Paperback
A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
Engelsk Paperback

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‘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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
464
ISBN-13:
9781847394576
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1847394574
Udg. Dato:
26 apr 2012
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
196mm
Forlag:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Oplagsdato:
26 apr 2012
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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