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 (also subtitled Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922) is a 1989 history book written by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Fromkin, which describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic changes that took place in the Middle East as a result, which he claims led to a new world war that's still going on today. It has been widely praised. Richard Holbrooke wrote: “Without knowledge of its backstory, no policymaker will get the region right... Of the vast array of books on the region, none is more relevant than Fromkin’s sweeping epic, A Peace to End All Peace.” Wm. Roger Louis reviewed it in The New York Times, judging the book “excellent ... Readers will come away... not only enlightened but challenged.” The Times called the book “the truth and nothing but the truth.”
 First US edition | |
| Author | David Fromkin |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Middle East, History |
| Publisher | Henry Holt (US) Andre Deutsch (UK) |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 635 |
| ISBN | 0-8050-6884-8 |
| OCLC | 53814831 |
| LC Class | DS63.2.G7 F76 2001 |
Donald Quataert criticized the book for its non-use of Ottoman sources.[1]
References
- Quataert, Donald (2006). "The Massacres of Ottoman Armenians and the Writing of Ottoman History". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 37 (2): 249–259. doi:10.1162/jinh.2006.37.2.249. ISSN 0022-1953. JSTOR 4139548. S2CID 145622783.
- Fromkin, David (2009). A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-8809-0.