The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement

by Christopher Simon Sykes

Book Overview

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.

The Sykes-Picot agreement was drawn by the eponymous
British and French diplomats in 1916 to determine the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0008121931
• ISBN13: 9780008121938
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: William Collins
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.7"