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100 1 $aSykes, Christopher Simon,$d1948-$eauthor.
245 14$aThe man who created the Middle East :$ba story of Empire, conflict and the Sykes-Picot agreement /$cChristopher Simon Sykes.
250 $aWilliam Collins paperback edition.
260 $aLondon :$bWilliam Collins,$c2017.
300 $a368 p. :$bill., portraits ;$c20 cm.
500 $aFirst published: 2016.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe story of the catastrophic British mishandling of the Middle East, told through the career of Sir Mark Sykes - Edwardian aristocrat, traveller, writer, politician and co -author of the infamous 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement, a shadydeal between Entente powers to carve up the Middle East that lies at the heart of many of region's problems today. At the age of only 36 Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to a reviled and notorious treaty, drawn up in May 1916 between the Frenchand the British, that divided up the collapsing Ottoman Empire in the event of an allied victory in World WarOne. Written without any Arab involvement, it negated an earlier promise that the British Government had made to the Arabs that they would gain independence. Drawn up in secret, a controversy has raged around it ever since. A century after its signature, the region is still dominated by political corruption and vicious ethnic and sectarian violence.
600 10$aSykes, Mark,$d1879-1919.
650 0$aBoundary disputes$zMiddle East.
650 0$aArab-Israeli conflict.
650 0$aDiplomats$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xTerritorial questions$zMiddle East.
651 0$aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zMiddle East.
651 0$aMiddle East$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.
651 0$aMiddle East$xPolitics and government$y1914-1945.
651 0$aMiddle East$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0$aMiddle East$xHistory$y1914-1923.