Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day.Ī new afterword from Fromkin, written for this edition of the book, includes his invaluable, updated assessment of this region of the world today, and on what this history has to teach us. All it left was a mood of anger throughout Germany as it was felt that as a nation Germany had been unfairly. Fromkin looks at how international, intranational, and intergroup conflicts all played out to ultimately tear apart the Ottoman Empire, and create the states in the Middle East. Some scholars would even say it was no peace treaty at all, but just an indictment of Germany (Sage, 2006). A Peace to End All Peace is an invaluable resource for any scholar seeking to understand the World War I and its effects on the Middle East. In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. But considering the discussions above, the Treaty of Versailles was proven to be a Peace to end all Peace.

All of these conflicts-including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects-are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. A peace to end all peace by David Fromkin Publication date 1990 Topics Great Britain - Foreign relations - Middle East., Middle East - Foreign relations - Great Britain.