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  <title><![CDATA[A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East]]></title>
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  <default_description>Wonderful....No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East. Los Angeles Times</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1989</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[David Fromkin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting history of the machinations that set the stage for the current Middle East.  I've read more gripping historical counts, but this is very detailed, and well thought out.  It traces the usually (but not always) well-intentioned policies, the brilliant but ill-informed and culturally ign...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40095939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I humbly recommend this book as a very detailed yet readable account of the origins of several present-day Middle East nations. It all happened during a crucial four-year window which occured eighty-five years ago. The broad cast of characters hail from Britain, the Ottoman Empire, France, America, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45952857">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A VERY detailed examination of the Middle Eastern theater before, during and after WWI. Fromkin looks at the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the characters and processes that drew up the boundaries of what essentially became the current day Middle East up to the &quot;settlement of 1922.&quot; For an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65775562">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes when we are negotiating we get overwhelmed and feel that we are the only ones in the world with problems.  If so, read this book and see what truly monumental negotiation problems are like.  Second, sometimes we think that the other party is the demon and we, of course, are blameless.  If ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52637638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have the patience to read about 500 pages of dense historical observation and testimony you will find out the reason why there isn't going to be an easy answer to our contemporary problems in the region.  You may wind up lamenting everything with a newfound sense of historical fatalism, you m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45659341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Peace to End All Peace covers the events leading up to what Fromkin calls the &quot;Settlement of 1922,&quot; when the political boundaries and institutions that were to predominate in the Middle East for most of the next century took shape. The book details the many factors involved, such as the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67430074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31988149">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fromkin manages to provide us with a highly detailed, thorough understanding of the creation of the modern middle east ... as far as I can tell, as this is the first book I've read on this subject aside from T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom which is in fact only half true and focuses more on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31988149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Fromkin's &quot;A Peace to End All Peace&quot; is a wondefully researched and well-written account that covers the political creation of the modern Middle East from the period starting during World War I and the years immediately subsequent to it. Although Fromkin tackles the project in a some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14885922">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is dense but all-in-all worth the close read it requires. An incredibly well-researched and comprehensive look at the decision-making and implementation that went into British policy on the Middle East during World War I and immediately after. What it lacks in dazzle and readability it mak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/537962">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My brother bought me this book when it was first published in paperback years ago.  Recently, I finally decided to take it off the shelf and read it.  This book is an excellent, detailed survey of the western (British) strategy and events that led to the current middle eastern map and today's confli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33176423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16832382">
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    <body><![CDATA[Right after Orientalism, I read David Fromkins’ A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East . Fascinating. This detailed work covers everything leading up to, through and right after the First World War, related to the Middle East. Fromkin is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16832382">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="838894">
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    <body><![CDATA[Warning, this book is not for the casual reader. It's packed with plenty of info on the Middle East under the Ottoman Empire. Much attention is given to the various countries in the region and how they came to be. The Middle East as we know it today was created from the aftermath of WW1. The book al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/838894">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a history buff, but this account of the events surrouding WWI was riveting and eye-opening. I had never appreciated that the roots of the modern middle east reach back to this time, nor that so many of the fateful decisions made were in service to such strange misinformation or misunderstand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3555722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75465820">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent survey (read &quot;not based on many primary sources&quot;) of the historical birth of the modern Middle East. Very much a history and personality driven account, Fromkin gets at more fundamental issues of religion and philosophy but they're not his focus. I particularly liked t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75465820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very informative, yet a little difficult to follow the geography and also all the players, particularly on the British side.  The book would've greatly benefited from more maps besides those lousy ones at the beginning of the book.]]></body>
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    <review id="41257886">
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally a book that lends even the slightest bit of light on why the Middle East is so fundamentally messed up socially, economically, diplomatically, etc. This books packs all the information in that you could ever need. ]]></body>
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    <review id="73535142">
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    <body><![CDATA[Essential reading for how the western world shaped middle eastern history for the 20th century to present. Well written. Told without any agenda. Excellent!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing account of the fall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and the subsequent carving up of the Arabian Peninsula into what we now refer to as the Middle East.  This book is extremely informative and yet reads like a novel, giving a unique insight into how the Allied Powers and Central ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/648088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this book 4 stars for content but two stars for readability, so it averages out to three. I felt the author went into too much detail, making it hard to keep track of the larger picture. But overall I came away with a much better understanding of the history of the modern Middle East and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61530562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a little hard to get through, but an interesting take on the historical reasons for the current situation in the Middle East]]></body>
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