David Fromkin
A peace to end all peace
Avon Books
Avon Books A peace to end all peace The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East David Fromkin
Avon Books New York
Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation 105 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10016
Copyright © 1989 by David Fromkin Cover photograph courtesy of University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Published by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number. 88-34727 ISBN: 0-380-71300-4
All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by the U.S. Copyright Law. For information address Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 115 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011.
The Henry Holt and Company edition contains the following Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data:
Fromkin, David. A peace to end all peace.
Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Great Britain—Foreign relations—Middle East. 2. Middle East—Foreign relations—Great Britain. 3. Middle East—Politics and government—1914-1945. I. Title. DS63.2.G7F76 1989 / 327.41056 / 88-34727
First Avon Books Trade Printing: December 1990
Avon Trademark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. And In Other Countries, Marca Registrada, Hecho En U.S. A.
Printed in the U.S.A. OPM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4
“After ‘the war to end war’ they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a ‘Peace to end Peace.”’
Archibald Wavell (later Field Marshal Earl Wavell), an officer who served under Allenby in the Palestine campaign, commenting on the treaties bringing the First World War to an end |