读过《A Line in the Sand》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
结尾真够讽刺的。1918年在大马士革居民欢呼声中入城的一个英国人，31年后九死一生地逃离了那个城市， 英法的委任统治终结，留下遍地疮痍和仇恨。而当年和他同车入城的同僚早就说过Salvation comes from within a nation...So long as she permits outsiders to teach or preach in her boundaries, so surely is she an inferior nation. People can take from one another, but cannot give to one another（这里不是指仇外)。阿拉伯国家作用涉及较少。不知是否是因为作者英国人，法国人和犹太复国主义者才特别不堪。
Book
A Line in the Sand
Douban Goodreads Skybridge
James Barr
publishing house:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
2011
- 8
other title:
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East
In the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region between them to the birth of Israel, A Line in the Sand is a gripping narrative of the last gasp of imperialism, with tales of unscrupulous double-dealing, cynical manipulation, and all-too-frequent violence that continues to the present day.