Ebook: Churchill's folly: how Winston Churchill created modern Iraq

As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences and unseen repercussions extending into the twenty-first century. Christopher Catherwood, scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, examines Churchill's creation of the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War One, forcing together unfriendly peoples?Sunni Muslim Kurds and Arabs, and Shiite Muslims?under a single ruler. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment and the desire of subjugated peoples to rule themselves, Churchill put together the broken pieces of.;Introduction -- From Abraham to Allenby -- Arab revolt and the great betrayal -- How two men in London changed the world -- Churchill and his forty thieves -- Changing the map, the Cairo conference of 1921 -- Winston's bridge -- From Feisal to Saddam -- Very speculative afterword.