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A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- De: James Barr
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome storytelling
- De Mark david en 11-01-24
- A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- De: James Barr
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
Sets out to prove a thesis
Revisado: 10-07-24
The unfolding of the case is heavily anecdotal which make for a difficult storyline to follow. Not once the book avoids, mends or entirely contradicts known historical facts in order to make the point that the shaping of the middle east in the 20th century is purely an Anglo-French power struggle and all the other factors, including the Arab nationalism and the Zionism movement are merely pawns on the board. Unfortunately this reader is not convinced.
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- De: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,271
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,146
Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members - mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- De K en 05-24-21
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- De: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
Disappointing and one-sided account
Revisado: 08-06-24
Unfortunately the narrative is purely Palestinian and portraying them as helpless victims to a ruthless oppression. The Palestinian cause will gain so much more headway one they aslo assume responsibility for their own evil doing toward the jews and the state of Israel since the turn of the 20th century. The Israel/Palestine story is not a good guys/bad guys story, portraying it as such, by either side, is just childish. I would recommend this book but also supplmenting it with one of many books about the establishment of the state of Israel to get a more comprehensive and thorough understanding of the conflict.
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