This work attempts to explain why the Middle East is a major focus for international conflict, looking at the period after 1914, when the Ottoman Empire was def

Examines the tumultuous history of the Middle East from 1800 to 1958. It integrates developments all over the region into a comprehensible narrative that enable

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John Fisher explores the acquisitive thinking which, from the autumn of 1914, drove the Mesopotamian Expedition, and examines the political issues, internationa