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Churchill's folly : how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq / Christopher Catherwood.
Van Pelt Library DS70.96.G7 C38 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Catherwood, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Iraq.
- International relations.
- Great Britain.
- Iraq--History--1921-.
- History.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- Churchill, Winston.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Carroll and Graf edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf Pub., 2004.
- Summary:
- Reveals the history behind Winston Churchill's greatest mistake as an international statesman, the formation of Iraq after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- From Abraham to Allenby
- Arab revolt and the great betrayal
- How two men in London changed the world
- Churchill and his forty thieves
- Changing the map, the Cairo conference of 1921
- Winston's bridge
- From Feisal to Saddam
- Very speculative afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 078671557X
- 9780786715572
- OCLC:
- 61728647
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