Contested Lands: A History of the Middle East From the First World War to the Present Cookbook_Gift_Guide Imogen is an orphan

Imogen is an orphan

Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told

just like we do

Historian Iris Chang tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers

Contested Lands: A History of the Middle East From the First World War to the Present Cookbook_Gift_Guide Imogen is an orphanA history of the last century of tensions in the Middle East. Until the First World War, the Ottoman Empire had dominated the Middle East for four centuries. Its collapse, coupled with the subsequent clash of European imperial policies, unleashed a surge of political feelings among the people of the Middle East as they vied for national selfdetermination. Over the century that followed, the region has become almost synonymous with unrest and conflict.