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The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Title
The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 / Sean McMeekin.
ISBN
9781594205323 (hardcover)
1594205329 (hardcover)
Publication
New York, New York : Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House LLC, [2015]
Physical Description
xx, 550 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
"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 unstable new order in postwar Middle East--much of which is still felt today"-- Jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index.
Contents
Introduction: 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, Sarıkamış, 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 : the poisoned chalice
Part III: Death and rebirth
Mudros
Sèvres
Sakarya
Smyrna
Lausanne and the Ottoman legacy.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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