David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 – June 11, 2017) was an American historian, best known for his interpretive account of the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East.

[2] Fromkin wrote seven books, ending in 2007 with The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners.

[2] In the 1972 Democratic primary campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidate Hubert Humphrey.

[2] As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.

[1] Noam Chomsky criticized Fromkin for his portrayal of the US-backed NATO intervention in the Kosovo War.