Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: History of the Middle East Made Interesting

Responsible citizens of the West today cannot afford to ignore the history of the Middle East. As other reviewers here have commented, this book alone will not serve to enlighten you on all that is going on in the Middle East today. However it is a good start, and it illustrates what has worked and what has not worked in the past when the West has dealings with Middle Eastern cultures and countries. It is not an area of the world that can simply be ignored.David Fromkin did the world a favor in writing this book and makes the History of the Middle East come alive. He is thoroughly readable. This is a history book that is hard to put down once you have started. It also does much to chronicle events and battles of WWI that are not readily available in most books concerning that war, yet have perhaps had longer lasting impact on the history following.