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The Man Who Created the Middle East - A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement (Paperback)
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The Man Who Created the Middle East - A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement (Paperback)
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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the
Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern
times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his
grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political
instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it. The
Sykes-Picot agreement was drawn by the eponymous British and French
diplomats in 1916 to determine the divide of the collapsing empire
in the event of an allied victory in World War I. Excluding Arab
involvement, it negated their earlier guarantee of independence
made by the British - and controversy has raged around it ever
since. But who was Mark Sykes? A century on, Christopher Simon
Sykes reveals new facets of a misremembered diplomatic giant. Using
previously undisclosed family letters and cartoons by his
grandfather, he delivers a comprehensive and humbling account of
the man behind one of the most impactful policies in the Middle
East.
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