{"product_id":"a-line-in-the-sand-britain-france-and-the-struggle-that-shaped-the-middle-east-james-barr","title":"A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East\nJames Barr","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; François Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. They drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier, and together remade the map of the Middle East, with Britain’s 'mandates' of Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq, and France's in Lebanon and Syria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the next thirty years \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea sordid tale of violence and clandestine political manoeuvring unfolded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, told here through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eT. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Using declassified papers from the British and French archives, James Barr vividly depicts the covert, deadly war of intrigue and espionage between Britain and France to rule the Middle East, and reveals the shocking way in which the French finally got their revenge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca:text textemphasis=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/a:text\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productInfoTabExpanderHeader0\" class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003ca role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead less\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55660128600355,"sku":null,"price":470.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55660128633123,"sku":null,"price":600.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55660128665891,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_b4d093f8-12e7-47ce-85cf-071a114f6a5b.webp?v=1790417013","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/a-line-in-the-sand-britain-france-and-the-struggle-that-shaped-the-middle-east-james-barr","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}