The Ottoman endgame
Subtitle: war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923
By: Sean McMeekin
Publisher: Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House LLC
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9781594205323
Subjects: Politics and government; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introdution: The Sykes-Picot myth and the modern Middle East; title: Prologue: September 7, 1876; title: Part I: The sick man of Europe; title: The sick patient; title: Radical surgery: the young Turks; title: The jackals pounce; title: Searching for an ally; title: Part II: The War of 1914: Turkey plays its hand; title: Manna from Mars: the arrival of SMS Goeben; title: The battle for Ottoman belligerence; title: Basra, Sar&#x0131;kam&#x0131;ş, and Suez; title: Dardanelles; title: Gallipoli; title: Massacre in Turkish Armenia; title: A cold winter for the British Empire; title: Erzurum and Kut; title: Double bluff; title: Ottoman holy war and Arab revolt; title: Russia's moment; title: Turning the Arabs; title: Brest-Litovsk; title: Part III: Death and rebirth; title: Mudros; title: Sèvres; title: Sakarya; title: Smyrna; title: Lausanne and the Ottoman legacy.