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| List of Illustrations and Maps | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Spelling | |
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| Introduction | |
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| At the Crossroads of History | |
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| The Last Days of Old Europe | |
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| The Legacy of The Great Game in Asia | |
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| The Middle East Before The War | |
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| The Young Turks Urgently Seek an Ally | |
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| Winston Churchill on The Eve of War | |
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| Churchill Seizes Turkey's Warships | |
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| An Intrigue at the Sublime Porte | |
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| Kitchener of Khartoum Looks Ahead | |
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| Kitchener Takes Command | |
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| Kitchener's Lieutenants | |
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| Kitchener Sets out to Capture Islam | |
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| India Protests | |
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| The Man in The Middle | |
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| Britain Is Drawn into the Middle Eastern Quagmire | |
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| The Turkish Commanders Almost Lose The War | |
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| Kitchener Allows Britain to Attack Turkey | |
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| On to Victory at the Dardanelles | |
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| Russia's Grab for Turkey | |
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| Defining Britain's Goals in the Middle East | |
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| At the Narrows of Fortune | |
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| The Warriors | |
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| The Politicians | |
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| The Light That Failed | |
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| Creating the Arab Bureau | |
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| Making Promises to the Arabs | |
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| Making Promises to the European Allies | |
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| Turkey's Triumph at the Tigris | |
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| Subversion | |
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| Behind Enemy Lines | |
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| Kitchener's Last Mission | |
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| Hussein's Revolt | |
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| The Allies at the Nadir of Their Fortunes | |
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| The Fall of the Allied Governments: Britain and France | |
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| The Overthrow of the Czar | |
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| New Worlds and Promised Lands | |
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| The New World | |
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| Lloyd George's Zionism | |
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| Toward The Balfour Declaration | |
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| The Promised Land | |
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| Invading the Middle East | |
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| Jerusalem for Christmas | |
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| The Road To Damascus | |
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| The Battle for Syria | |
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| The Spoils of Victory | |
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| The Parting of the Ways | |
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| By The Shores of Troy | |
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| The Tide Goes Out | |
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| The Ticking Clock | |
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| Betrayal | |
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| The Unreal World of the Peace Conferences | |
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| Storm over Asia | |
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| The Troubles Begin: 1919-1921 | |
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| Egypt: The Winter of 1918-1919 | |
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| Afghanistan: The Spring of 1919 | |
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| Arabia: The Spring of 1919 | |
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| Turkey: January 1920 | |
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| Syria and Lebanon: The Spring and Summer of 1920 | |
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| Eastern Palestine (Transjordan): 1920 | |
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| Palestine-Arabs and Jews: 1920 | |
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| Mesopotamia (IRAQ): 1920 | |
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| Persia (Iran): 1920 | |
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| Russia Returns to the Middle East | |
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| Unmasking Britain's Enemies | |
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| The Soviet Challenge in the Middle East | |
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| Moscow's Goals | |
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| A Death in Bukhara | |
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| The Middle Eastern Settlement of 1922 | |
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| Winston Churchill Takes Charge | |
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| Churchill and the Question of Palestine | |
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| The Alliances Come Apart | |
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| A Greek Tragedy | |
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| The Settlement of the Middle Eastern Question | |
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| Afterword to the 2009 Edition | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |