A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin Summary
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Fromkin's Pulitzer-finalist masterpiece reveals how post-WWI decisions by Allied powers created today's Middle East chaos. "Without this backstory, no policymaker will get the region right," diplomat Richard Holbrooke warned. How did arbitrary borders drawn a century ago ignite conflicts we still can't solve?
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When Europe Carved Up the Middle East-and Changed Everything
Walk into any newsroom today and you'll find headlines about Iraq's sectarian violence, Syria's civil war, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Turn back the clock a century, and you'd find none of these countries existed. Between 1914 and 1922, European politicians sitting in London and Paris drew lines on maps, creating nations from scratch in a region they barely understood. These weren't careful decisions born from deep knowledge-they were hasty improvisations made during wartime chaos. The borders they drew, the kings they installed, the promises they made and broke-all of it happened in less than a decade. Yet we're still living with the consequences. Picture a luxury yacht gliding through the Mediterranean in 1912. On board, British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and a young Winston Churchill tour ancient ruins, marveling at vanished civilizations. Churchill complains jealously that the Greeks and Romans "only said everything first." The irony is thick-these men can't imagine their own empire might someday join those ruins. At this moment, the Middle East barely registers in European consciousness. The Ottoman Empire, which has ruled the region for centuries, seems like a sleepy backwater. The countries we know today-Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia-don't exist. Most Europeans couldn't locate Damascus on a map and didn't care to try. Yet beneath this surface calm, everything is about to explode. Within two years, Europe will plunge into a catastrophic war that will destroy four empires, including the Ottoman one. That collapse will create a vacuum, and European powers will rush to fill it-not with careful planning, but with desperate improvisation.
The Great Game and the Dying Empire
Churchill's Strategic Blunders and the Road to War
The Dardanelles and Gallipoli Disasters
The Arab Revolt That Failed
Churchill's Settlement and the Balfour Declaration
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