The Skyes-Picot Agreement was drawn up by eponymous British and French diplomats in 1916 to determine the divide of the collapsing Ottoman Empire in the event of an Allied victory World War I. Excluding Arab involvement, it negated their earlier guarantee of independence made by the British – and controversy has raged around it ever since. But who was Mark Sykes?
A century on, Christopher Simon Sykes reveals new facets of a misremembered diplomatic giant. Using previously undisclosed family letters and cartoons by his grandfather, he delivers a comprehensive and humbling account of the man behind one of the most impactful policies in the Middle East.
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