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How did an Ottoman general create T\u00fcrkiye?How did Britain and France carve up the Middle East &#8211; and why did the Kurds never get their own state?Can there ever be peace between Israel and Palestine?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.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>The Cauldron<\/strong>, Simon Sebag Montefiore delivers a fresh and unique history of the entire region in all its diversity, from 1900 up to the present day. 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