A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by Fromkin. David - 1990

U.S.A: Avon Books, 1990. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Avon Books, 1990. Paperback in Good Condition. 5 maps. 50 illustration plates. Bright and clean orange and green illustrated wraps with spine creases, closed inch tear to lower front corner of spine heel. Pages clean and unmarked, moderately toned. The critically acclaimed account of how the modern Middle East emerged from decisions made by the Allies during and after World War I. The Middle East is what it is today both because the European powers undertook to reshape it and because Britain and France failed to ensure that the dynasties, the states and the political systems that they established would last. During and after WW I the Allies destroyed the old order in the region, the Ottoman Empire, irrevocably, and smashed Turkish rule of the Arabic-speaking Middle East. In its place they created countries, with boundaries, which was alien to that culture. The settlement of 1922 settled their fate, and we have what we have today. An excellent book for anyone wanting to have a better understanding of the Middle East today. 635 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 5.25 x 8 inches. 1990, Avon Books, USA