How France and the United Kingdom divided the mediate East with a finger on the map (which conflicts the region to this day)

In “Line on Sand” politics are made by people of blood and bone – with their emotions, flaws and qualities. Winston Churchill, ordering his subordinates to hold an crucial conference in Cairo while he himself goes to paint pyramids, propels the desire to match his father. Charles de Gaulle, on the another hand, makes his inherent arrogance a tool of politics, which sometimes works, and sometimes, on the contrary, erstwhile France loses Syria. Mark Sykes, a pretentious diletant whose advice was listened to thanks to a well-known but shallow bestseller, gives back Mosul to the French due to the fact that he does not like this town.