‘It was a struggle between Britain and France for the mastery of the Middle East that led the two countries to carve up the Ottoman Empire with the Sykes-Picot agreement.’
‘The Mandatories’ abrupt changes of policy under pressure, and their refusal to institute meaningful, representative government,

James Barr’s A Line in the Sand examines the notorious Great War carve-up of the Middle East through a different lens: the imperial rivalry between Britain and France. Barr (Setting the Desert on Fire) views the Entente Cordiale formed between the two longtime enemies strained in the face of conflic

Growing up in Lebanon and learning my country's history from the history books at school, I believed the lies! And here comes a book to try and dust off the fiction from the fact!
It is the story of how a continuous rivalry between two countries shaped up our history and explains our nowadays struggl

ما هو الحلم الانتداب الفرنسي والبريطاني في المنطقة العربية ؟

كيف خدعت بريطانيا العرب وفرنسا؟ وكيف انتقمت فرنسا منها؟ ومن طرد بريطانيا من فلسطين؟ رحلة ممتعة مع كتاب هام -لكل قارئ عربي- أنصح بقراءته.

مُخطئ من يعتقد أنه على دراية تامة بكل تفاصيل تقسيم منطقة الشرق الأوسط. فبالرغم من الحقائق العديدة التي ك

The blurb above gives you a good all-round picture of the scope of this book. The first thing I should point out is that this book reads like a well written novel. Any history book holds the possibility of killing a subject with a dry regurgitation of facts. The skill lies in presenting them in such

I read A Line in the Sand to try to fill the gaps in my knowledge about the 20th C origins of many of the Middle East nations which were created - rather arbitrarily it turns out - by the colonial British and French powers following the precipitous fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1916 during WWI. I wa