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The Last Ottoman Wars - The Human Cost, 1877-1923 (Hardcover)
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The Last Ottoman Wars - The Human Cost, 1877-1923 (Hardcover)
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During the last half century of its existence, the Ottoman Empire
and the lands around its borders were places of constant political
turmoil and unceasing military action. The enormous costs of war
were paid not only by politicians and soldiers, but by the Ottoman
civilian population as well. This book examines the hardships that
ordinary people, Muslim and Christian alike, endured during decades
of warfare. Jeremy Salt brings to the surface previously ignored
facts that disrupt the conventional narrative of an ethno-religious
division between Muslim perpetrators and Christian victims of
violence. Salt shows instead that all major ethno-religious
groups-including Armenians, Turks, Kurds, and Greeks-were guilty of
violent acts. The result is a more balanced picture of European
involvement in the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans, one that
highlights the destructive role of British Prime Minister David
Lloyd George and other European leaders grabbing for Ottoman
resources up to the end of World War I. The effects of these events
are felt to the present day. This extraordinary story centers not
on military campaigns but on ordinary civilians whose lives were
disrupted and in many cases destroyed by events over which they had
no control. Disease, malnutrition, massacre and inter-communal
fighting killed millions of people during the First World War
alone. Until now this epic saga of human suffering has remained a
story largely untold.
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