Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
By Unknown Author.
Description
A brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel's godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq); some controversial (the CIA's Miles Copeland and the Pentagon's Paul Wolfowitz). All helped enthr...
ISBN(s)
039306199X, 9780393061994
