Churchill's folly
how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq
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Publication
2004 - Carroll & Graf Pub., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
66,750 words, Guess
Page Count
267 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3438626M
- ISBN-100786713518
- OCLC Control Number55660169
- OCLC Control Numberchurchillsfollyh00cath
- Library of Congress Control Number2005297580
and 2 more
- Goodreads7064688
- LibraryThing1063502
Classifications
- LCCDS70.96.G7 C38 2004
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.
First Sentence
In March 1921, Winston Churchill, the newly appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies, summoned a large team of his advisers to meet together in a luxury hotel in Cairo.
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