TY  - BOOK
AU  - Catherwood,Christopher
TI  - Churchill's folly: how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq 
SN  - 0786713518
AV  - DS70.96.G7 C38 2004
U1  - ARCH FRBC 956.704 C363C 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Carroll & Graf Pub.
KW  - Churchill, Winston,
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 1921-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - A scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War I, thereby forcing together unfriendly peoples under a single ruler. Using T.E. Lawrence to induce Arabs under the rule of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against their oppressors, the British and French during World War I convinced the Hashemite clan that they would rule over Syria. In fact, Britain had promised the territory to the French. To make amends, Churchill created the nation of Iraq and made the Hashemite leader, Feisal, king of a land to which he had no connections at all. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment, and the desire of subject peoples to rule themselves, Churchill created a Middle Eastern powder keg.--Publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2005297580-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2005297580-d.html
ER  -