How did one extraordinary prince create Saudi Arabia?Why were a million Armenians killed during WWI?How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah and become ruler of Iran?Why did the Arab Spring fail?Could Trump's peace deal lead to a new Middle East?THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF TODAY'S MIDDLE EAST: A SPELLBINDING HISTORY FROM THE BESTSELLING, PRIZEWINNING HISTORIAN AND MASTER STORYTELLER, SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIOREThe Middle East has forever been the source of religions, prize of empires, spark-wheel of conflicts, well of radicalism and epicentre of our tumultuous world. No other region has such a hold on our imagination nor such a propensity to unleash mayhem. Yet few know its real history, fewer still understand its variety and cosmopolitanism, its complexity and interconnectedness.In The Cauldron, Simon Sebag Montefiore delivers a fresh and unique history of the entire region in all its diversity, from 1900 up to the present day. Taking the reader on a spectacular journey...

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