List of illustrations and Maps Photo Credits Acknowledgments A Note on Spelling Introduction | p. 10 p. 11 p. 12 p. 14 p. 15 |
PART I - At the Crossroads of History |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | The Last Days of Old Europe The Legacy of the Great Game in Asia The Middle East Before the War The Young Turks Urgently Seek and Ally Winston Churchill on the Eve of War Churchill Seizes Turkey's Warships An Intrigue at the Sublime Porte |
p. 23 p. 26 p. 33 p. 45 p. 51 p. 54 p. 62 |
PART II - Kitchener of Khartoum Looks Ahead |
8 9 10 11 12 | Kitchener Takes Command Kitchener's Lieutenants Kitchener Sets Out to Capture Islam India Protests The Man in the Middle |
p. 79 p. 88 p. 96 p. 106 p. 111 |
PART III - Britain is Drawn into the Middle Eastern Quagmire |
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | The Turkish Commanders Almost Lose the War Kitchener Allows Britain to Attack Turkey On to Victory at the Dardanelles Russia's Grab for Turkey Defining Britain's Goals in the Middle East At the Narrows of Fortune The Warriors The Politicians The Light That Failed Creating the Arab Bureau Making Promises to the Arabs Making Promises to the European Allies Turkey's Triumph at the Tigris |
p. 119 p. 124 p. 130 p. 137 p. 146 p. 150 p. 155 p. 159 p. 163 p. 168 p. 173 188 p. 200 |
PART IV - Subversion |
26 27 28 | Behind Enemy Lines Kitchener's Last Mission Hussein's Revolt |
p. 207 p. 216 p. 218 |
PART V - The Allies at the Nadir of Their Fortunes |
29 30 | The Fall of the Allied Governments: Britain and France The Overthrow of the Czar |
p. 231 p. 239 |
PART VI - New Worlds and Promised Lands |
31 32 33 34 | The New World Lloyd George's Zionism Toward the Balfour Declaration The Promised Land |
p. 253 p. 263 p. 276 p. 284 |
PART VII - Invading the Middle East |
35 36 37 | Jerusalem for Christmas The Road to Damascus The Battle for Syria |
p. 305 p. 315 p. 332 |
PART VIII - The Spoils of Victory |
38 39 | The Parting of the Ways By the Shores of Troy |
p. 351 p. 363 |
PART IX - The Tide Goes Out |
40 41 42 | The Ticking Clock Betrayal The Unreal World of the Peace Conference |
p. 383 p. 389 p. 403 |
PART X - Storm over Asia |
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 | The Troubles Begin: 1919-1921 Egypt: The Winter of 1918-1919 Afghanistan: The Spring of 1919 Arabia: The Spring of 1919 Turkey: January 1920 Syria and Lebanon: The Spring and Summer of 1920 Eastern Palestine (Transjordan): 1920 Palestine - Arabs and Jews: 1920 Mesopotamia (Iraq): 1920 Persia (Iran): 1920 |
p. 415 p. 417 p. 421 p. 424 p. 427 p. 435 p. 441 p. 445 p. 449 p. 455 |
PART XI - Russia Returns to the Middle East |
53 54 55 56 | Unmasking Britain's Enemies The Soviet Challenge in the Middle East Moscow's Goals A Death in Bukhara |
p. 465 p. 471 p. 475 p. 480 |
PART XII - The Middle Eastern Setllement of 1922 |
57 58 59 60 61 | Winston Churchill Takes Charge Churchill and the Question of Palestine The Alliances Come Apart A Greek Tragedy The Settlement of the Middle Eastern Question |
p. 493 p. 515 p. 530 p. 540 p. 558 |
Notes Bibliography Index | p. 569 p. 607 p. 621 |