Kingmakers: the invention of the modern Middle East

Abbreviations

Map of the Middle East

Authors' Note

Prologue: The Ever-Growing Egg

1. The Proconsul

2. The Empire's Power Couple

3. "Dr. Weizmann, It's a Boy!"

4. The Acolyte

5. "Dreadfully Occupied in Making Kings and Governments"

6. The Frenzy of Renown

7. The Apostate

8. "A Splendid Little Army"

9. A Very British Coup: General Ironside and the Three Percys (Sirs Cox, Sykes, and Loraine)

10. The Quiet American

11. The Apprentice Sorcerer

12. The Man Who Knew Too Much

Epilogue: Echoes in a Long Corridor

Selective Chronology

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Notes

Bibliography

Index