The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 / Sean McMeekin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMeekin, Sean, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History, Military--20th century.

Turkey.

Turkey--History--20th century.

Middle East--History--1914-1923.

Middle East.

Turkey--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

xx, 550 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2015.

Summary:

"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"-- ǂc Jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781594205323 : HRD

1594205329 : HRD