Night Falls On Damascus by Frederick Highland Thomas Dunn, $24.95, 259 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-33789-6 Night Falls On Damascus is about a world in terrible flux.  Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait were all created after World War I, “The Great War” as it was then called, from the remnants of the devastated Ottoman Empire.  They were then made protectorates of the British and French governments by the League of Nations.