''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 for General Nonfiction finalist David Fromkin, which describes the events leading to the dissolution of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...

during

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, and the drastic changes that took place in the

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as a result, which he believed led to a new world war that is still continuing. It has been widely praised.

Richard Holbrooke Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world (Asia from 1977 ...

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 William Roger Louis CBE FBA (born May 8, 1936), commonly known as Wm. Roger Louis or, informally, Roger Louis, is an American historian and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Louis is the editor-in-chief of ''The Oxford History ...

reviewed it in ''

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'',The Great Middle East Game, And Still No Winner
The New York Times, August 27, 1989 judging the book "excellent ... Readers will come away... not only enlightened but challenged." ''

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'' of London described the book as “the truth and nothing but the truth.”

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The Hundred Years' War, Dec. 2015
1989 non-fiction books 20th-century history books History books about the Ottoman Empire Henry Holt and Company books Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire {{Ottoman-book-stub