ԳԱԱ Ինստիտուտների համահավաք գրացուցակ = The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 /
McMeekin, Sean, 1974-
The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 / Sean McMeekin. - xx, 550 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index.
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.
"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"--
9781594205323 (hardcover)
2015431335
Middle East--History--1914-1923.
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Middle East--Politics and government--1914-1945.
956/.02
The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 / Sean McMeekin. - xx, 550 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index.
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.
"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"--
9781594205323 (hardcover)
2015431335
Middle East--History--1914-1923.
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Middle East--Politics and government--1914-1945.
956/.02
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