A Peace to End All Peace by Fromkin, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover ALSO BY DAVID FROMKIN Title Page Epigraph CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments Introduction PART I At the Crossroads of History

1 THE LAST DAYS OF OLD EUROPE 2 THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT GAME IN ASIA 3 THE MIDDLE EAST BEFORE THE WAR 4 THE YOUNG TURKS URGENTLY SEEK AN ALLY 5 WINSTON CHURCHILL ON THE EVE OF WAR 6 CHURCHILL SEIZES TURKEY’S WARSHIPS 7 AN INTRIGUE AT THE SUBLIME PORTE

PART II Kitchener of Khartoum Looks Ahead

8 KITCHENER TAKES COMMAND 9 KITCHENER’S LIEUTENANTS 10 KITCHENER SETS OUT TO CAPTURE ISLAM 11 INDIA PROTESTS 12 THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE

PART III Britain is Drawn into the Middle Eastern Quagmire

13 THE TURKISH COMMANDERS ALMOST LOSE THE WAR 14 KITCHENER ALLOWS BRITAIN TO ATTACK TURKEY 15 ON TO VICTORY AT THE DARDANELLES 16 RUSSIA’S GRAB FOR TURKEY 17 DEFINING BRITAIN’S GOALS IN THE MIDDLE EAST 18 AT THE NARROWS OF FORTUNE 19 THE WARRIORS 20 THE POLITICIANS 21 THE LIGHT THAT FAILED 22 CREATING THE ARAB BUREAU 23 MAKING PROMISES TO THE ARABS 24 MAKING PROMISES TO THE EUROPEAN ALLIES 25 TURKEY’S TRIUMPH AT THE TIGRIS

PART IV Subversion

26 BEHIND ENEMY LINES 27 KITCHENER’S LAST MISSION 28 HUSSEIN’S REVOLT

PART V The Allies at the Nadir of Their Fortunes

29 THE FALL OF THE ALLIED GOVERNMENTS: BRITAIN AND FRANCE 30 THE OVERTHROW OF THE CZAR

PART VI New Worlds and Promised Lands

31 THE NEW WORLD 32 LLOYD GEORGE’S ZIONISM 33 TOWARD THE BALFOUR DECLARATION 34 THE PROMISED LAND

PART VII Invading the Middle East

35 JERUSALEM FOR CHRISTMAS 36 THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS 37 THE BATTLE FOR SYRIA

PART VIII The Spoils of Victory

38 THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 39 BY THE SHORES OF TROY

PART IX The Tide Goes Out

40 THE TICKING CLOCK 41 BETRAYAL 42 THE UNREAL WORLD OF THE PEACE CONFERENCES

PART X Storm over Asia

43 THE TROUBLES BEGIN: 1919–1921 44 EGYPT: THE WINTER OF 1918–1919 45 AFGHANISTAN: THE SPRING OF 1919 46 ARABIA: THE SPRING OF 1919 47 TURKEY: JANUARY 1920 48 SYRIA AND LEBANON: THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1920 49 EASTERN PALESTINE (TRANSJORDAN): 1920 50 PALESTINE—ARABS AND JEWS: 1920 51 MESOPOTAMIA (IRAQ): 1920 52 PERSIA (IRAN): 1920

PART XI Russia Returns to the Middle East

53 UNMASKING BRITAIN’S ENEMIES 54 THE SOVIET CHALLENGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST 55 MOSCOW’S GOALS 56 A DEATH IN BUKHARA

PART XII The Middle Eastern Settlement of 1922

57 WINSTON CHURCHILL TAKES CHARGE 58 CHURCHILL AND THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE 59 THE ALLIANCES COME APART 60 A GREEK TRAGEDY 61 THE SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN QUESTION

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