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-breaki...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The Sykes-Picot myth and the modern Middle East
- Prologue : September 7, 1876
- The sick man of Europe. The sick patient ; Radical surgery : the young Turks ; The jackals pounce ; Searching for an ally
- 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
- Death and rebirth. Mudros ; Sèvres ; Sakarya ; Smyrna ; Lausanne and the Ottoman legacy.