The Man Who Created The Middle East: The Life Of Sir Mark Sykes
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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the
Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern
times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his
grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political
instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it. The
Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret pact drawn up in May 1916
between the French and the British, to divide the collapsing
Ottoman Empire in the event of an allied victory in the First World
War. Agreed without any Arab involvement, it negated an earlier
guarantee of independence to the Arabs made by the British.
Controversy has raged around it ever since. Sir Mark Sykes was not,
however, a blimpish, ignorant Englishman. A passionate traveller,
explorer and writer, his life was filled with adventure. From a
difficult, lonely childhood in Yorkshire and an early life spent in
Egypt, India, Mexico, the Arabian desert, all the while reading
deeply and learning languages, Sykes published his first book about
his travels through Turkey aged only twenty. After the Boer War, he
returned to map areas of the Ottoman Empire no cartographer had yet
visited. He was a talented cartoonist, excellent mimic and amateur
actor, gifts that ensured that when elected to parliament a full
House of Commons would assemble to listen to his speeches. During
the First World War, Sykes was appointed to Kitchener’s staff,
became Political Secretary to the War Cabinet and a member of the
Committee set up to consider the future of Asiatic Turkey, where he
was thirty years younger than any of the other members. This search
would dominate the rest of his life. He was unrelenting in his
pursuit of peace and worked himself to death to find it, a victim
of both exhaustion and the Spanish Flu. Written largely based on
the previously undisclosed family letters and illustrated with
Sykes' cartoons, this sad story of an experienced, knowledgeable,
good-humoured and generous man once considered the ideal diplomat
for finding a peaceful solution continues to reverberate across the
world today.
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William Collins ,
Christopher Simon Sykes
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William Collins,
Christopher Simon Sykes
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