Published with a new afterword from the author-the classic bestselling account of how the
modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions
ideologies nationalisms and ambitions. All of these conflicts-including the hostilities
between Arabs and Israelis and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects-are
rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements unities and divisions imposed
by the Allies after the First World War. In A Peace to End All Peace David Fromkin reveals how
and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the
Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922 when all seemed possible he
delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time
showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the
conflicts and confusion that continue to this day. A new afterword from Fromkin written for
this edition of the book includes his invaluable updated assessment of this region of the
world today and on what this history has to teach us.
