Churchill's folly
how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq
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Publication
2007 - Barnes & Noble, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
66,750 words, Guess
Page Count
267 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780760792681
- ISBN-100760792682
- ISBN-139780760792681
- OCLC Control Number159958493
- Open LibraryOL25774865M
Classifications
- DDC956.7041
- LCCDS70.96.G7 C38 2007
Description
A scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War I, thereby forcing together unfriendly peoples under a single ruler. Using T.E. Lawrence to induce Arabs under the rule of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against their oppressors, the British and French during World War I convinced the Hashemite clan that they would rule over Syria. In fact, Britain had promised the territory to the French. To make amends, Churchill created the nation of Iraq and made the Hashemite leader, Feisal, king of a land to which he had no connections at all. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment, and the desire of subject peoples to rule themselves, Churchill created a Middle Eastern powder keg.--Publisher description.
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