Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq

Name: Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
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ISBN13: 9780786715572
Binding: Paperback
Subject: N/A
Publisher: Basic Books
Publisher Imprint: Basic Books
Publication Date: May 19, 2005
Pages: 288
Original Price: USD 21.99
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Item Weight: 268 grams
BISAC Subject(s): Middle East / General

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As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences. Scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, Christopher Catherwood chronicles and analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War I, thereby forcing together unfriendly peoples under a single ruler. The map of the Middle East that Churchill created led to the rise of Saddam Hussein and the wars in which American troops fought in 1991 and 2003. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment, and the desire of subject peoples to rule themselves, Winston Churchill put together the broken pieces of the Ottoman Empire and created a Middle Eastern powder keg. Inducing Arabs under the rule of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against their oppressors, the British and French during World War I convinced the Hashemite clan that they would rule over Syria. In fact, Britain had promised the territory to the French. To make amends, Churchill created the nation of Iraq and made the Hashemite leader, Feisel, king of a land to which he had no connections at all. Eight pages of photographs add to this fascinating history on Churchill's decision and the terrible legacy of the Ottoman Empire's collapse.

About The Author

Christopher Catherwood teaches history at Cambridge University and the University of Richmond (Virginia). He has served as a consultant to the Strategy Unit of Tony Blair's cabinet, working in the Admiralty Building where Winston Churchill was based as First Lord of the Admiralty.

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