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My Grandfather: Scapegoat for a Century of Middle East Madness

CLOAK AND DAGGER

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed 100 years ago, led to disasters in the Mideast. Yet, as Sykes’s grandson and biographer tells us, Sykes himself was a young idealist.

Christopher Simon Sykes
Christopher Simon Sykes
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Christopher Simon Sykes

Christopher Simon Sykes

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