An edition of The Ottoman endgame
(2015)
The Ottoman endgame
war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923
by Sean McMeekin
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"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"--
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The Ottoman endgame: war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923
2015, Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House LLC
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1594205329 9781594205323
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Table of 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, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index.
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