I would try a constructive comment. From an accessibility point of view, this is a great historical synthesis. The outspoken Georges Corm, his style, make this book a must to understand, quite simply, the Middle East issues. Thus, this book reviews the history of this area that we tend to see in the news prism, with our Western eyes. In fact, this book is placed more in the eyes of the population than in ours. The book is short and returns to the Iraq war, a kind of "transition" - he refuses the word "break" - between two ways of understanding this region. The US remains the most attacked, including George W. Bush that Georges Corm does not seem really enjoyed (and I would say, rightly so). For those who would like to read an author less engaged, I would advise the professor of the College de France, Henry Laurens Europe and Islam: Fifteen centuries of history
