הנה משהו שלא ידעתי על מארק סייקס אחד מהאדריכלים של חוזה סייקס פיקו: "Sykes died three months [after world war I ended] in a Paris hotel, aged 39, of the Spanish flu."
Also relevant:
"“You’re writing about that arsehole?” a historian asked when learning of Christopher Sykes’s planned biography of his grandfather."
"“You’re writing about that arsehole?” a historian asked when learning of Christopher Sykes’s planned biography of his grandfather."
Plot thickens. Mark Sykes had a traumatizing family background: "Mark’s relationship with his father was equally tempestuous. When the daughter of his coachman ended up pregnant by Mark, Tatton, in a fit of rage, hung his son’s beloved terriers from a tree."
"Mark was greeted by the sight of the dead dogs on his return from Cambridge for his spring holiday. Later, when his son reached 21, Tatton delayed legal recognition of his majority because Mark was due to depart for the Boer War. He was gambling on his son dying on the veld."
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