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"Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East."—Jack Miles, Los Angeles Book Review
"Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval."—Reid Beddow, Washington Post Book World
"Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies."—Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal
"[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them....The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present."—Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker
"Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval."—Reid Beddow, Washington Post Book World
"Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies."—Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal
"[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them....The book demands close attention and repays it. Much of the information here was not available until recent decades, and almost every page brings us news about a past that troubles the present."—Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker
"One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia....Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged ? challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title."—The New York Times Book Review
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An examination of the period 1914 - 1922 and the emergence of the Middle East as we know it today. Subtitled }The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East{.
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It's been quite a while since I read a book straight-through, from start to finish, w/o putting it down. Took about three days. Wow. What was the last one like that? "Three Musketeers" perhaps <g>.
I can't evaluate it from the historical science point of view--I'm not smart enough. Perhaps the reviewer below ("colonialism...") is right about some facts being incorrect. But I have to say that my understanding of the Middle East has changed *completely* (it would probably be better to say that I gained an understanding vs. a disconnected mish-mash of opinions, newspaper reports, and facts that that I somehow "knew", but couldn't tell how if my life depended on it.)
I have a custom of ruining books I read by highlighting, dog-ear'ing, writing on pages, and inserting lots of post-its everywhere. So, this time I've used a pack of highlighters on this book! (This method did fail sometimes, 'cause some pages I ended up "painting over" completely. There's absolutely no fluff in there.) The book contains such a huge amount of information--factual of course, but also a lot of analysis, that I *know* I will have to read it again, and probably more than once--at least in order to let the timeline set in. On the first reading I really felt overwhelmed, and I'll let it settle for a while (though I did go back selectively.) Btw, Fromkin's writing style is outstanding, especially for a book that's bound to be difficult because of sheer information volume. It's actually easy to read.
Another good thing is is an insert with a great selection of photos and maps. There's something visual about nearly every personnage talked about wich makes the description come alive in many cases.
The only problem is that even now my copy is close to start falling apart, and it would really be great if they made a hardback (and added more photos and, most importantly, maps.) Well, for maps I recommend to have a copy of Penguin Atlas of European History, it's pretty, colorful, detailed, got quite a bit of complementing text (factual primarily)--it's is a very good companion for Fromkin's "Peace ..." Well, all right...
Oh, no, one more thing--the book contains a 15-page index, a 15-page bibliography (which is separate from reference section, which is about 40 pages long.) I mean, if you'd like to enlarge on what you've read (after taking a vacation <g>, of course) you've got links to about 20 years worth of related reading material there.)
It's an outstanding work.
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A Peace to End All Peace is enthralling in its reading and fascinating in scope, but a little bit of reflection after reading it brings to light some flaws. First, the history is somewhat lacking. I came to reading with a good deal of knowledge about it already, but someone without that prior knowledge might be lost. This is to some degree a reflection of Fromkin's scope, 7 or so years over a wide geographic area. Second, this book just wasn't satisfying. I can't really explain it, but I left this book feeling like I needed to know more, that reading those 600 pages had told an incomplete story. Nevertheless, I would rate A Peace to End All Peace to be a good and solid, if unspectacular, book.
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Fascinating history
This book provides a fascinating history of the early 20th century "creation" of the Middle East. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Juli 2000 von Gregory John
Sinister colonialism
I read the other reviews pertaining to this book and I was a little surprised at how well this book was received. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
I strongly recommend this book.
I have recently finished this book. I found it very informative and well-written. I strongly recommend this book to everybody who are interested on middle-east, Arabic and Turkish... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Wonderful book!
The very image of British delegates clustered around outdated maps of Mesopotamia and the Holy Land, muffling curses as they try to pin-point elusive rivers -- with Semitic names... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Januar 1999 von dwdavison@aol.com
Well Done.
If you have visited the Middle East or are interested in the region, this book makes sense of the whole affair. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
A very good read.
It has been over five years since I finished this book, but I do recall that it is very well written. Far from being dry history, it reads as an intriguing story. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
If you like this stuff- read it
For me, this was a hard book to read without context. When I first grabbed it 7 years ago, I put it down after 50 pages. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. September 1998 veröffentlicht
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