Churchill's Folly
Subtitle: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: May 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786715572
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Middle East - General; Great Britain - History - 20th Century; Iraq - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Iraq; Middle East; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History / Middle East; Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: In March 1921, Winston Churchill, the newly appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies, summoned a large team of his advisers to meet together in a luxury hotel in Cairo.