num_pages: 640
description: Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by bureaucracy and subterfuge by Americans and Europeans - of the states known collectively as the Middle East. The years 1914-1922 were the creative, formative years when everything seemed possible, but the events of 1922, the pivotal year, set the course for a future of endless wars and acts of terrorism that became the legacy of this period. Issues such as The Allenby Declaration establishing nominal independence for Egypt, the Palestine Mandate and the Churchill White Paper (from which Israel and Jordan sprang), the installing of Hashemite leaders of predominantly Shi'ite teritories, new leaders for Egypt and Iraq, the Russian declaration of a Soviet Union intent on re-establishing her rule over Moslem Central Asia - David Fromkin shows how all these changed the Middle East (and Europe) forever.
language: English
title: A Peace To End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation the Modern Middle East
titlecomplete: A Peace To End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation the Modern Middle East
genres: Historical, War, World War I, Politics, European History, Nonfiction, World History, Military History, Islam, History
ratings_count: 8076
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Phoenix Books/Orion Publishing Group Ltd.