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Peace to End All Peace : The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805088091
ISBN-139780805088090
eBay Product ID (ePID)69586930
Product Key Features
Edition20
Book TitlePeace to End All Peace : the Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
Number of Pages688 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicMiddle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, International Relations / General, World / Middle Eastern, Middle East / General
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorDavid Fromkin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-039021
TitleLeadingA
ReviewsExtraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval., "Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East." -- Jack Miles, Los Angeles Book Review "Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval." -- Reid Beddow, Washington Post Book World "Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies." -- Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal "[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them....The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present." -- Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker "One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia....Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged--challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title." -- The New York Times Book Review, Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East., Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies., One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia....Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged--challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title., "Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East."-Jack Miles, Los Angeles Book Review "Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval."-Reid Beddow, Washington Post Book World "Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies."-Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal "[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them....The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present."-Naomi Bliven , The New Yorker "One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia....Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged ? challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title."- The New York Times Book Review, [It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them....The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present., "Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East."-Jack Miles, Los Angeles Book Review "Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval."-Reid Beddow, Washington Post Book World "Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies."-Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal "[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them....The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present."-Naomi Bliven , The New Yorker "One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia....Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged-challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title."- The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal327.41056
Edition DescriptionAnniversary
SynopsisPublished with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts--including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects--are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. In A Peace to End All Peace , David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day. A new afterword from Fromkin, written for this edition of the book, includes his invaluable, updated assessment of this region of the world today, and on what this history has to teach us.
LC Classification NumberDS63.2.G7F76 2009
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