The Making of the Modern Middle East

A gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold from the BBC's Jeremy Bowen, who has covered the region since 1989.In The Making of the Modern Middle East, Bowen takes us on a journey from Afghanistan to Sudan, from Egypt to Palestine and from Aleppo to Jerusalem, meeting ordinary men and women at home and on the front line and their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation. The result is a vivid insight into the Middle East's complex past and troubled present.