![]() Most of the scholarship on World War I is concerned with either the western front or the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. There were many individuals whose actions helped create the modern Middle East, and a Peace to End All Peace shows how it was their interactions helped lay the groundwork for a conflict that continues to define the region today. ![]() While the academic world might be familiar with Gallipoli and Lawrence of Arabia, Fromkin illuminates a much larger and more complicated picture that includes a few triumphs as well as many tragic blunders. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Middle EastĪs the world marks the centennial of the war to end all wars, David Fromkin’s A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Middle East, is a welcome addition to the literature, chronicling the chaos and violent conflicts in the Middle East during World War I. ![]()
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