The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
Authors: Christopher Simon Sykes Publisher: HarperCollins Edition: 1 Publish Year: 2018 ISBN: 9780008121938 The Sykes–Picot agreement was drawn by the eponymous British and French diplomats in 1916 to determine the divide of the collapsing empire in the event of an allied victory in World War I. Excluding Arab involvement, it negated their earlier guarantee of independence made by the British – and controversy has raged around it ever since. But who was Mark Sykes?