A peace to end all peace : the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East / David Fromkin. Fromkin, David, author.

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2009.

xi, 643 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions, whose conflicts are largely rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, this book reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map the remade the geography and politics of the Middle East.