The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Simon Sykes

The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement

Christopher Simon Sykes

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics funny slow-paced
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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 polit...

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