This book has the following sub-title; The Mismanagement of the Middle East 1900-1960.
The Western powers – Britain, France and the USA – discovered the imperatives for intervention that have plunged the region into crisis ever since.
It was then, too, that most of the region’s modern-day states were created and their regimes forged; and then that their management by the West earned abiding resentment.
Sowing the Wind tells of how and why this happened.
The subject is painful and essentially sombre, but John Keay illuminates it with lucid analysis and anecdotes.