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'''''A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East''''' (also subtitled '''''Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922''''') is a 1989 history written by [[David Fromkin]]. The book, which was a [[Pulitzer Prize]] finalist, describes the events leading to the dissolution of the [[Ottoman Empire]] during [[World War I]], and the drastic changes that took place in the [[Middle East]] as a result.
'''''A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East''''' (also subtitled '''''Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922''''') is a 1989 history written by [[David Fromkin]]. The book, which was a [[Pulitzer Prize]] finalist, describes the events leading to the dissolution of the [[Ottoman Empire]] during [[World War I]], and the drastic changes that took place in the [[Middle East]] as a result.

==Quotations from the book==
"When the British armed forces occupied the Middle East at the end of the war, the region was passive." (Ch. 43)

"In retrospect, one sees Britain undergoing a time of troubles everywhere in the Middle East between 1919 and 1921; but it was not experienced that way, at least not in the beginning."

"The principal British fantasy about the Middle East – that it wanted to be governed by Britain, or with her assistance – ran up against a stone wall of reality. The Sultan and Egypt’s other leaders refused to accept mere autonomy or even nominal independence; they demanded full and complete independence, which Britain – dependent on the Suez Canal – would not grant."


==References==
==References==
* {{Cite book |last=Fromkin |first=David |authorlink=David Fromkin |title =A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East |publisher=Macmillan |year=2009 |location= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OV0i1mJdNSwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=978-0-8050-8809-0}}
* {{Cite book |last=Fromkin |first=David |authorlink=David Fromkin |title =A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East |publisher=Macmillan |year=2009 |location= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OV0i1mJdNSwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=978-0-8050-8809-0}}

==External Links==
* [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/bionic-mosquito/100-years-war/ The Hundred Years' War, Dec. 2015]


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Revision as of 16:46, 23 December 2015

A Peace to End All Peace
AuthorDavid Fromkin
LanguageEnglish
GenreMiddle East, History
PublisherOwl Books
Publication date
1989
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages635
ISBN0-8050-6884-8
OCLC53814831
LC ClassDS63.2.G7 F76 2001

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (also subtitled Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922) is a 1989 history written by David Fromkin. The book, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic changes that took place in the Middle East as a result.

Quotations from the book

"When the British armed forces occupied the Middle East at the end of the war, the region was passive." (Ch. 43)

"In retrospect, one sees Britain undergoing a time of troubles everywhere in the Middle East between 1919 and 1921; but it was not experienced that way, at least not in the beginning."

"The principal British fantasy about the Middle East – that it wanted to be governed by Britain, or with her assistance – ran up against a stone wall of reality. The Sultan and Egypt’s other leaders refused to accept mere autonomy or even nominal independence; they demanded full and complete independence, which Britain – dependent on the Suez Canal – would not grant."

References