Carving up the Sandbar: Britain, France and the Fight That Shaped the Middle East
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In 1916, British politician Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Georges-Picot secretly reached the "Sykes-Picot Agreement" to carve up the Middle East, defining a new map of the Middle East: Britain administered Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq, and France controlled Lebanon and Syria. Over the next thirty years, violence and secret politics were played out here, with politicians, diplomats, spies, and soldiers appearing one after another, including T. E. Lawrence, Churchill, and de Gaulle. Drawing on newly declassified documents from British and French archives, James Barr reconstructs the secret war between Britain and France for leadership in the Middle East, and reveals for the first time the French's masterful revenge in ending the British Mandate in Palestine.
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