Barr James: A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: 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; Francois 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…