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A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- Gesprochen von: Peter Noble
- Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 7 Min.
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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. The deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier. Territory north of that stark line would go to France; land south of it, to Britain. Against the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the postwar division of the region into five new countries Britain and France would rule. The creation of Britain's 'mandates' of Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq, and France's in Lebanon and Syria, made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following 30 years.
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.
In 1946, after many years of intrigue and espionage, Britain finally succeeded in ousting France from Lebanon and Syria and hoped that, having done so, it would be able to cling on to Palestine. Using newly declassified papers from the British and French archives, James Barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life and reveals, for the first time, the stunning way in which the French finally got their revenge.
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- Steven P.
- 03.09.2020
A very well written and narrated book.
I enjoyed every chapter of the book as they were very informative and still enthralling. I am not much of an expert of the Middle East but now I gained quite of an understanding of its history.
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Jonathan Krapf
- 15.04.2021
All the drama of the Middle East in a few pages
The author is visibly very well informed and has done his research. Add to that an ease of style that makes reading (or in our case, listening) a true pleasure while, almost casually, you learn about all the important parts of the complex framework that underlies the modern Middle East. A gem of a book.
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- Zakaria
- 21.08.2020
An ABSOLUTE MUST-READ for anyone studying or working on the Middle-East
The book tells the story of quadruple treason, conflicting interests, changing alliances, and uncompromising values. It is slightly depressing as it lacks appeasement and discusses the hideous acts of terrorism by Arabs, Jews, and Colonial powers. No hands are clean but understanding history and internal conflicts could one day help to bring peace.
In the book, Barr vividly tells the story of the short 34 crucial years when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It is divided into four sections: the carve up (1915-19) when the line between Acre in Palestine and Kirkuk in Mesopotamia was drawn and the diplomacy and politics behind the divisions. The second part is the interwar tensions (1920-39) that was full of revolts by Arabs, Druze, and Jews, as well as the power politics of oil discovery and pipelines. Third is the “secret war” (1940-45) where a real-life Game of Throne took place during the Second World War with king exiles and assassinations. Finally, the colonial exit (1945-49) that cemented the new world order and the institutional destruction of the Middle-East.
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