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A Line In The Sand: Britain, France And The Struggle That Shaped The Middle East
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Author James Barr
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It was the middle of World War I. Two men one, a visionary British politician (Mark Sykes), the other, a veteran French diplomat (Francois Georges-Picot) secretly agreed to divide the Middle East. Britain would have mandates in newly created Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq; France in Lebanon and Syria.
For the next thirty years, this divide would make uneasy neighbors of ...more
For the next thirty years, this divide would make uneasy neighbors of ...more