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    The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

    Simon Sebag Montefiore

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    How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah of Iran and change the world?

    Why did Bin Laden attack the USA - and why did the USA destroy Saddam?

    How did Britain and France carve up the Middle East - and why did the Kurds never get their own state?

    THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF TODAY'S MIDDLE EAST: A SPELLBINDING HISTORY FROM THE BESTSELLING, PRIZEWINNING HISTORIAN AND MASTER STORYTELLER

    The Middle East has forever been the source of religions, prize of empires, spark-wheel of conflicts, well of radicalism and epicentre of our tumultuous world. No other region has such a hold on our imagination nor such a propensity to unleash mayhem. Yet few know its real history; fewer still understand its variety and cosmopolitanism, its complexity and interconnectedness. In The Cauldron, Simon Sebag Montefiore delivers a fresh and unique history of the entire region in all its diversity, from 1900 up to the present day. Taking the reader on a spectacular journey from the Ottoman sultanate to the Trump presidency, from Morocco to Iran, this is a dazzling panorama of faith and fanaticism, creativity and tolerance, dictatorship and democracy brought to life by an extraordinary cast of kings, warriors, poets, terrorists and peacemakers.

    This is the essential story of how the Middle East of 1900 became the Middle East of today - and tomorrow.

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    Praise for The Cauldron

    • Fascinating, stimulating and balanced - former Dep. Prime Minister of IraqUnique, refreshing, nuanced and balanced. It is an essential read - Palestinian negotiator with Israel over half a centuryBreathtaking, incisive and outstanding, this is the book you need to read right now . . . The Cauldron marks a turning point in the way we understand the region in world historyCaptivating and monumental . . . The Cauldron should serve as the essential text for any student of history who seeks to understand the turbulent events of this region in modern times - former Prime Minister of Israel

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    Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Simon Sebag Montefiore is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Prize. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (USA), the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France), and the Kreisky Prize (Austria). Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East was a number one Sunday Times (UK) bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council (US) and the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China (People's Republic of China). The Romanovs: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize (Italy); and The World: A Family History, a NYTimes and Sunday Times bestseller, was named The Times History Book of the Year. In 2025, he was awarded the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize (Canada) for "his body of work in humanity and history.' He is also the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year Prize. He read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he received his PhD. He is the presenter of five history series for the BBC and many of his books are being developed for movies or drama series.

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