Kyle Harrison
to-read
A Peace to End All Peace
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- Author
- David Fromkin
- Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 635
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: David Fromkin on the 1914–1922 settlement — Sykes-Picot, the Balfour Declaration, the mandates — and how borders drawn in London and Paris produced the states of the modern Middle East.
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- World War I — the war whose settlement the book is about.