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The critically acclaimed New York Times. bestselling account of how the modern Middle East emerged from decisions made by the Allies during and after World War 1

The Middle East has long been a battleground of rival religions, ideolo-gies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts-including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared up yet again-stem from its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divi-sions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.

In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new coun-tries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. F…

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