About the Book: A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of
the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
Published with a new afterword from the author the classic, bestselling account
of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region
of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these
conflicts including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent
challenges posed by Iraqs competing sects are rooted in the regions political
inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies
after the First World War. In"A Peace to End All Peace,