Winston's Folly

Christopher Catherwood

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND

Publication Date : 08/07/2004

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Subtitled "How Winston Churchill's creation of modern Iraq led to Saddam Hussein".

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Publisher's description:

As Colonial Secretary in the 1920s Winston Churchill made a decision forcing three radically different peoples - the Sunni Muslim Kurds, Sunni Muslim Arabs, and Shiite Muslims - to combine under a single ruler. The author argues that the situation in the Middle East today is the unwitting legacy of that decision.

ISBN: 9781841199399