Shadow of the sultan's realm : the destruction of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East / Daniel Allen Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Daniel Allen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--Mehmed V, 1909-1918.

Turkey.

History.

World War, 1914-1918--Turkey.

World War, 1914-1918.

Middle East--History--1914-1923.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xiii, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2011]

Summary:

The story of the last days of the Ottoman Empire is one that to be told for its own sake. In the middle of the sixteenth century. While feudal Europe was still coalescing into true nation states the reached its apogee as the dominant military, economic, cultural, and relfgious power in the world. In the second decade of the twentieth century after almost three hundred years of decline had reduced the Ottoman realm to such an enfeebled status that it was known as the Sick Man of Europe, it was still able to rise up a final time in one great act of defiance and confound the strategies of the Great Powers, demanding a measure of respect it had long since been denied, and challenging the combined military power of Russia, France, and the British Empire.

Praise for Daniel Allem Butler's The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Sultan's Realm 1

2 The Eve of War 25

3 Opening Moves 53

4 Alarums And Excursions 85

5 Gallipoli 107

6 Kut 133

7 Armenian Agony 147

8 El Aurens 163

9 The Road To Damascus 183

10 The Fall Of The Sultan's Realm 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781597974967

159797496X

OCLC:

702168797