The Great War and the Middle East Roaring Twenties in its insistence on American

in its insistence on American identity

From April to November of 1919

Severn and Somme and War's Embers

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by Mike Osborne

The Great War and the Middle East Roaring Twenties in its insistence on AmericanDescription by Rob Johnson Hardcover The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalized old ones from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia or the modernizing Ataturk, and destroyed others. And it completely re drew the map of the region, forging a host