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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Setting the Desert On Fire by James Barr

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  An excellent revisionist account of the war in the Middle East between 1916 and 1918. James Barr debunks many of the myths surrounding T. E. Lawrence and provides us with a serious, considered, yet gripping history of this moment in Arab and Western relations.

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  A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East by James Barr

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  A vital insight into the crucial, but often overlooked, era when Britain and France fought out a political and clandestine battle for control of the Middle East. Against the odds, a pact secretly drawn out by two men - one French, one English - to divide the Middle East between them, survives the First World War and forms the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries.