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Christopher Catherwood

Winston's Folly

How Winston Churchill's Creation of Modern Iraq led to Saddam Hussein

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As Colonial Secretary in the 1920s Winston Churchill made a decision regarding the Middle East that was to have calamitous consequences. Scholar and strategic policy consultant, Christopher Catherwood discusses how Churchill created an artificial monarchy of Iraq after the First World War, forcing three radically different peoples to combine under a single ruler. Today's map of the Middle East, the rise of Saddam Hussein and Gulf Wars of 1991 and 2003 are the unwitting legacy of a conference led by Churchill in Cairo in 1921. Inducing Arabs under the rule of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against their oppressors - abetted by T. E. Lawrence - the… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4721-2040-3
  • EAN: 9781472120403
  • Produktnummer: 22516866
  • Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'101 KB

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