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This covers many of the competing interests in this area focusing on the era of wwi in the lands of the middle east controlled then by the ottoman empire the lands divided up at the end of wwi by the picotsykes map

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His coverage of the increasing need for oil and the rush to claim it was somewhat light perhaps in part he chose instead to include more american european individuals prufer yale aaronsohn a device that may work for some readers

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Lawrence or lawrence of arabia fame is the most wellknown

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The others are curt prufer of the german embassy in cairo egypt aaron aronsohn a zionist and agronomist who became close to the ottoman governor of syria and finally william yale who worked for standard oil and was searching for oil in the middle east when wwi broke out

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While working undercover for standard oil he repeatedly tried to supply both sides with fuel during the war

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Unfortunately sarah was captured and tortured before she was able to find a gun and shoot herself

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No one could believe that she was the head of the spy ring in her district

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The main thrust of this history is that great britain france and germany lied to the arabian people and divvied up the middle east for their profits