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The Ottoman Endgame - War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 (Paperback)
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The Ottoman Endgame - War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 (Paperback)
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'An outstanding history ... one of the best writers on the First
World War' Simon Sebag Montefiore Shortlisted for the Duke of
Westminster Medal for Military Literature The Ottoman Endgame is
the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman
empire's agonising war for survival. Beginning with Italy's
invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the Empire was in a
permanent state of emergency, with hardly a frontier not under
direct threat. Assailed by enemies on all sides, the Empire-which
had for generations been assumed to be a rotten shell-proved to be
strikingly resilient, beating off major attacks at Gallipoli and in
Mesopotamia before finally being brought down in the general ruin
of the Central Powers in 1918. As the Europeans planned to
partition all its lands between them and with even Istanbul
seemingly helpless in the face of the triumphant Entente, an
absolutely unexpected entity emerged: modern Turkey. Under the
startling genius of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a powerful new state
emerged from the Empire's fragments. This is the first time an
author has woven the entire epic together from start to finish -
and it will cause many readers to fundamentally re-evaluate their
understanding of the conflict. The consequences, well into the 21st
century, could not have been more momentous - with countries as
various as Serbia, Greece, Libya, Armenia, Iraq and Syria still
living with them.
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