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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karl Ernest Meyer; Shareen Blair Brysac |
| ISBN: | 9780393061994 039306199X 9780393337709 0393337707 |
| OCLC Number: | 181139391 |
| Description: | 507 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Map of the Middle East -- Prologue: The Ever-Growing Egg -- The Proconsul / Lord Cromer -- The Empire's Power Couple / Dame Flora Shaw, Lord Frederick Lugard -- "Dr. Weizmann, It's a Boy!" / Sir Mark Sykes -- The Acolyte / A.T. Wilson -- "Dreadfully Occupied in Making Kings and Governments" / Gertrude Bell -- The Frenzy of Renown / T.E. Lawrence -- The Apostate / H.S.J.B. Philby -- "A Splendid Little Army" / Glubb Pasha -- A Very British Coup: General Ironside and the Three Percys (Sirs Cox, Sykes, and Loraine) -- The Quiet American / Kermit Roosevelt -- The Apprentice Sorcerer / Miles Copeland -- The Man Who Knew Too Much / Paul Wolfowitz -- Epilogue: Echoes in a Long Corridor. |
| Responsibility: | Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac. |
Abstract:
Tells the story of how the Middle East came to be, through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it.
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