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The Ottoman Army and the First World War (Hardcover)
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The Ottoman Army and the First World War (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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This is a comprehensive new operational military history of the
Ottoman army during the First World War. Drawing from archives,
official military histories, personal war narratives and sizable
Turkish secondary literature, it tells the incredible story of the
Ottoman army's struggle from the mountains of the Caucasus to the
deserts of Arabia and the bloody shores of Gallipoli. The Ottoman
army, by opening new fronts, diverted and kept sizeable units of
British, Russian and French forces away from the main theatres and
even sent reinforcements to Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria. Against
all odds the Ottoman army ultimately achieved some striking
successes, not only on the battlefield, but in their total
mobilization of the empire's meagre human and economic resources.
However, even by the terrible standards of the First World War,
these achievements came at a terrible price in casualties and,
ultimately, loss of territory. Thus, instead of improving the
integrity and security of the empire, the war effectively
dismantled it and created situations and problems hitherto
undreamed of by a besieged Ottoman leadership. In a unique account,
Uyar revises our understanding of the war in the Middle East.
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