ALAN SHARP and TG FRASER bring together their renowned knowledge of what happened when four empires collapsed simultaneously, a historical constellation unique to the aftermath of the First World War.Tom Fraser: T G Fraser MBE is Professor Emeritus of History and Honorary Professor of Conflict Research at the University of Ulster. His other books include: The USA and the Middle East since World War II (1989); and The Arab-Israeli Conflict (1995). Professor Alan Sharp is Provost of the Coleraine Campus at the University of Ulster. He joined the History Department at Ulster in 1971 and has been successively Professor of International Studies, a post in which he helped to set up degrees in… International Studies and, later, International Politics, Head of the School of History and International Affairs, and since 2006 Provost of the Coleraine Campus.