A Peace to End All Peace
Book description
An up-to-date analysis of the historical background to the divisions of the Arab world. For politics students and the general reader.
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Like Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August to which this compares in the breadth of scope and depth of knowledge, this is a huge, rich feast of a book and one of the best you can read on World War I as well as on the formative geopolitics of the modern Middle East. Like the greatest of the imperial geographers, David’s scholarship was omnivorous but his original discipline was law: his discussion of the rashly-drawn boundaries that are at the heart of A Peace to End All Peace is without peer.
Full disclosure: David was also a friend who, like…
From Patricia's list on changing discussions about the modern Middle East.
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