A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East,...
- ISBN-10
- 0393070654
- ISBN-13
- 9780393070651
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 450
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-09
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- James Barr
Description
Uses recently declassified French and British government documents to describe how the two countries secretly divided the Middle East during World War I and the effect these mandates had on local Arabs and Jews.
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