A peace to end all peace: the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East

Introduction

PART I: AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY: 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 an ally

Winston Churchill on the eve of war

Churchill seizes Turkey's warships

An intrigue at the sublime porte

PART II: KITCHENER OF KHARTOUN LOOKS AHEAD: Kitchener takes command

Kitchener's lieutenants

Kitchener sets out to capture Islam

India protests

The man in the middle

PART III: BRITAIN IS DRAWN INTO THE MIDDLE EASTERN QUESTION: 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

PART IV: SUBVERSION: Behind enemy lines

Kitchener's last mission

Hussein's revolt

PART V: THE ALLIES AT THE NADIR OF THEIR FORTUNES: The fall of the allied governments: Britain and France

The overthrow of the Czar

PART VI: NEW WORLDS AND PROMISED LANDS: The new world

Lloyd George's Zionism

Toward the Balfour declaration

The promised land

PART VII: INVADING THE MIDDLE EAST: Jerusalem for Christmas

The road to Damascus

The battle for Syria

PART VIII: THE SPOILS OF VICTORY: The parting of the ways

By the shores of Troy

PART IX: THE TIDE GOES OUT: The ticking clock

Betrayal

The unreal world of the peace conferences

PART X: STORM OVER ASIA: 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

PART XI: RUSSIA RETURNS TO THE MIDDLE EAST: Unmasking Britain's enemies

The Soviet challenge in the Middle East

Moscow's goals

A death in Bukhara

PART XII: THE MIDDLE EAST SETTLEMENT OF 1922: Winston Churchill takes charge

Churchill and the question of Palestine

The alliances come apart

A Greek tragedy

The settlement of the Middle East question

Afterword to the 2009 edition.