Intro -- Maps -- Prologue -- PART ONE: THE CARVE-UP: 1915-1919 -- 1 Very Practical Politics -- 2 Monsieur Picot -- 3 Enter T. E. Lawrence -- 4 Allenbys Man -- 5 I Want Mosul -- 6 Deadlock -- PART TWO: INTERWAR TENSIONS: 1920-1939 -- 7 The Crusader -- 8 Revolt in Iraq -- 9 The Best and Cheapest Solution -- 10 The Druze Revolt -- 11 The Crushing of the Druzes -- 12 The Pipeline -- 13 Revenge! Revenge! -- 14 Fighting Terror with Terror -- 15 Placating the Arabs -- PART THREE: THE SECRET WAR: 1940-1945 -- 16 A King in Exile -- 17 A Squalid Episode -- 18 Completely Intransigent, Extremely Rude -- 19 Envoy Extraordinary -- 20 Dirty Work -- 21 Another Fashoda -- 22 Friends in Need -- 23 Trop de Zle -- 24 The Murder of Lord Moyne -- PART FOUR: EXIT: 1945-1949 -- 25 Time to Call the Shots -- 26 Got to Think Again -- 27 The American League for a Free Palestine -- 28 French and Zionist Intrigues -- 29 Last Post -- Epilogue: A Settling of Scores -- Permissions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Plates -- Copyright.