The Ottoman endgame war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923
"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-b...
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New York :
Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House LLC
cop. 2015
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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, 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
- Part III: Death and rebirth
- Mudros
- Sèvres
- Sakarya
- Smyrna
- Lausanne and the Ottoman legacy.
