The Great War and the Middle East Roaring Twenties by Mike Osborne

by Mike Osborne

but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time

David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East

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by Marthe McKenna

The Great War and the Middle East Roaring Twenties by Mike OsborneDescription by Rob Johnson Hardcover The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalized old ones from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia or the modernizing Ataturk, and destroyed others. And it completely re drew the map of the region, forging a host