The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923

McMeekin, Sean, 1974- author.

Book 2015

"Between 1911 and 1923, a series of wars -- chief among them World War I -- would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states. It is a story we think we know well, but as Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history, we know far less than we think. Drawing from his years of ground-breaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives, The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstab...

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Middle East Politics and government 1914-1945

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

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ISBN:

9781594205323
1594205329

Description:

xx, 550 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index

Contents:

Introdution: The Sykes-Picot myth and the modern Middle East
Prologue: September 7, 1876
Part I: The sick man of Europe
The sick patient
Radical surgery: the young Turks
The jackals pounce
Searching for an ally
Part II: The War of 1914: Turkey plays its hand
Manna from Mars: the arrival of SMS Goeben
The battle for Ottoman belligerence
Basra, Sarikamis, and Suez
Dardanelles
Gallipoli
Massacre in Turkish Armenia
A cold winter for the British Empire
Erzurum and Kut
Double bluff
Ottoman holy war and Arab revolt
Russia's moment
Turning the Arabs
Brest-Litovsk
Part III: Death and rebirth
Mudros
Sèvres
Sakarya
Smyrna
Lausanne and the Ottoman legacy

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2015431335

Control Number:

1536683

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