In March 1921, Winston Churchill, the newly appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies, summoned a large team of his advisers to meet together in a luxury hotel in Cairo.
An edition of Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
(2004)
Churchill's folly
how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq
by Christopher Catherwood
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A scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War I, thereby forcing together unfriendly peoples under a single ruler. Using T.E. Lawrence to induce 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, Feisal, king of a land to which he had no connections at all. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment, and the desire of subject peoples to rule themselves, Churchill created a Middle Eastern powder keg.--Publisher description.
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Relations, History, Churchill, winston, 1874-1965, Iraq, historyPlaces
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Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
May 10, 2005, Carroll & Graf
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078671557X 9780786715572
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Churchill's folly: how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq
2004, Carroll & Graf Pub.
in English
0786713518 9780786713516
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