A Line in the Sand. Britain France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East (Barr James); Simon & Schuster, 2012

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; Francois 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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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781847394576
Автор(ы)	Barr James
Вес	0.35
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2012
Жанр	история
Издатель	Simon & Schuster
Издательство	Simon & Schuster
Кол-во страниц	460
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	460
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая