A Line in the SandBy: James Barr The very grubby coalface of foreign policy I found the entire book most horribly addictive Independent One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other Spectator A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British French rivalry drew the battle lines of the modern Middle East. In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two