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?