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Shadow of the Sultan's Realm - The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
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Shadow of the Sultan's Realm - The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
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The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven
centuries. At the height of its power, it stretched over three
continents and produced marvels of architecture, literature,
science, and warfare. When it fell, its collapse redrew the map of
the world and changed the course of history. Shadow of the Sultan's
Realm is the story of the empire's dissolution during a tumultuous
period that climaxed in the First World War. In its telling are
battles and campaigns that have become the stuff of
legend-Gallipoli, Kut, Beersheeba-waged by men who have become
larger than life: Enver Bey, the would-be patriot who was driven
more by ambition than by wisdom; T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of
Arabia"), the enigmatic leader of an irregular war against the
Turks; Aaron Aaronsohn, the Jewish botanist-turned-spy who deceived
his Turkish and British allies with equal facility; David Lloyd
George, the prime minister for whom power meant everything,
integrity nothing; Mehmet Talaat, who gave the orders that began
the Armenian massacres; Winston Churchill, who created a detailed
plan for the Gallipoli campaign, which should have been the
masterstroke of the Great War; Mustafa Kemal, a gifted soldier who
would become a revolutionary politician and earn the name Ataturk;
Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary who would promise
anything to anyone; and Edmund Allenby, the general who failed in
the trench warfare of the western front but fought brilliantly in
Palestine. Daniel Allen Butler weaves the stories of the men and
the events that propelled them into a compelling narrative of the
death of an empire. Its legacy is the cauldron of the modern Middle
East.
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