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Summary
David Fromkin's history of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East after World War I. It traces how British and French diplomats — through the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration — drew borders and installed rulers whose consequences continue to shape the region today, arguing that the peace settlement itself planted the seeds of a century of conflict.