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 two great powers and irreparably shape the Middle East.
Publisher.: | SIMON & SCHUSTER UK |
ISBN: | 9781847394576 |
Author.: | JAMES BARR |
Sub Category: | History |
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