I skipped many sections of the book just out of boredom. There's no doubt that Britain was the leading political power in the world before world war I, but especially in the beginning of the book the author drags into the narrative far too many unimportant British persons whose views didn't have any consequences worthy of mention and weren't particularly interesting to begin with. It can hardly be very definitive when the Turkish, Arab, Persian, German, Russian, French and American sides of the story, all taken together, receive less than half as much as space as the British one does. It is, in fact, misleading to call this a "definitive account" of the creation of the modern Middle East, as the back cover does.
This book describes the dissolution of the Ottoman empire in and after the first world war, with a very strong emphasis on British politics.
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