A review by josephbdoner
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

3.0

Too focused on the lives of the British politicians of the period for my taste. I picked up this book looking for a history of the late Ottoman Empire and the middle east during and immediately after WW1. What I got was a recounting of contemporary British perspectives, ideas, and points of view on the middle east and its people. While I must admit that these details were interesting I could have read any of a few hundred other books and gotten the exact same. Read this if you want to understand the British Empire's role in the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of many of the states that make up the modern middle east, but I'd recommend looking elsewhere for an actual history of the Ottoman Empire and the middle east itself.