A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East - Image 1

£9.40

Simon & Schuster A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East

Name: A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Price: 9.66 GBP
Availability: InStock

France

Price History & Forecast

Last 11 days • 11 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 11 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £9.41 (8 days, 72.7%)

Price range: £9.41 - £9.66

Price levels: 3 different prices over 11 days

Description

‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent ‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ Spectator A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East. In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; François Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. They drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier, and together remade the map of the Middle East, with Britain’s 'mandates' of Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq, and France's in Lebanon and Syria. Over the next thirty years a sordid tale of violence and clandestine political manoeuvring unfolded, told here through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. Using declassified papers from the British and French archives, James Barr vividly depicts the covert, deadly war of intrigue and espionage between Britain and France to rule the Middle East, and reveals the shocking way in which the French finally got their revenge.

Key Features

Pages Count - 464. Binding type - Perfect.

Product Specifications

Brand: Simon & Schuster
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1847394574
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 April 2012
Listed Since: 07 September 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Simon & Schuster A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East Book

The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East: Intelligence and Decolonization, 1940-1948 (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History)

Britain in the Middle East: 1619-1971

Cross Channel Currents: 100 Years of the Entente Cordiale

Routledge British Pan-Arab Policy, 1915-1922 - History Book

Scripting Middle East Leaders: The Impact of Leadership Perceptions on U.S. and UK Foreign Policy

The Great War in the Middle East: A Clash of Empires (Routledge Studies in First World War History)

The Middle East in Turmoil: Conflict, Revolution, and Change (Hot Spot Histories)

The Great War in the Middle East: A Clash of Empires (Routledge Studies in First World War History)

An Introduction to Middle East Politics

Richard Nixon, Great Britain and the Anglo-American Alignment in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula: Making Allies Out of Clients

Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war Decolonization, 1945-1973 (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History)

Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war Decolonization, 1945-1973 (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History)

The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances

The Arab World and Iran: A Turbulent Region in Transition (Middle East Today)

Secret War in the Middle East: The Covert Struggle for Syria, 1949-61 (Library of Modern Middle East Studies): v. 7

The Politics and Security of the Gulf: Anglo-American Hegemony and the Shaping of a Region

The Middle East: A Reader

The Middle East: A Reader

Israel, the Middle East and the Great Powers

SPIES IN ARABIA THE GREAT WAR AND THE CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF BRITAIN'S COVERT: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East

Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary

The Middle East and North Africa 2015

The Politics and Security of the Gulf: Anglo-American Hegemony and the Shaping of a Region