Finally – an authoritative, stimulating history of the modern Middle East
From our UK edition
Around 350 pages into Simon Sebag Montefiore’s exhilarating and accomplished history of the modern Middle East, we reach the present – or at least times that are so close to us that they are very much part of our recent lived experience. We have, to be fair, left long ago the realm of archives and yellowing press cuttings, black-and-white photographs and oft-cited quotes, and have been traversing for some time the years of all-too-bloody recent memory: 9/11 and its consequences, the Iraq War, the rise of ‘neo-Ottoman’ Turkey, the Arab Spring and much else. But suddenly here we are.
