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Churchill's folly : how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq /

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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 opp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catherwood, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Barnes and Noble, 2007.
Subjects:
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965.
Iraq > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > Iraq.
Iraq > History > 1921-
Irak > Histoire > 1921-
International relations.
Great Britain.
Iraq.
Since 1921
History.
Table of Contents:
  • From Abraham to Allenby
  • The Arab revolt and the great betrayal
  • How two men in London changed the world
  • Churchill and his forty thieves
  • Changing the map : the Cairo Conference of 1921
  • Winston's bridge
  • From Feisal to Saddam
  • A very speculative afterword.