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Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Anniversary)

Contributor(s): Fromkin, David (Author)

ISBN: 9780805088090

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Pub Date: July 21, 2009

Dewey: 327.41056

LCCN: 2008039021

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.23" H x 8.02" L x 5.26" W ( 1.14 lbs) 688 pages

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Description: "Featuring a new afterword by the author"--Cover.

Brief description: David Fromkin (1932-2017) was a professor at Boston University and the author of several acclaimed books of nonfiction, including A Peace to End All Peace, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. He lived in New York City.

Review Quotes:

"Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East."
-- Los Angeles Book Review

"Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval."
--Washington Post Book World

"Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies."
--The Wall Street Journal

"[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them....The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present."
--The New Yorker

"One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia....Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged--challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title."
--The New York Times Book Review

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