Jeremy Wilson

Jeremy Wilson

Jeremy Wilson is a historian and author of Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography.

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Why Sykes-Pi­cot got it all wrong

An ex­am­ple of poor wartime plan­ning for the af­ter­math of vic­to­ry, Sykes-Pi­cot echoes re­cent fail­ures in Iraq and Libya.

Opinion by Jeremy Wilson
Published On 16 May 2016
Soldiers on horseback in the Iraqi desert during the Mesopotamian campaign, circa 1916 [Getty]