Churchill's Folly
How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-465-06097-9
- EAN: 9780465060979
- Produktnummer: 22911542
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'295 KB
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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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