Sea of Troubles Spring26 ” and “The Snow Queen

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This Strange Eventful History may be Messud's finest book' Sunday Telegraph June 1940

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Rosie Marks

Sea of Troubles Spring26 ” and “The Snow QueenIn the mid eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, and its territories occupied by European powers. Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa over three