Last Days of the Ottoman Empire 1918-1922

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The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century.

The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed.

Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914 doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia.

Ryan Gingeras's superb new book explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies, or could something be saved? In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region, what would be the price paid to create a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an extraordinary, bitter epic, brilliantly told here.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141992778
Published: January 2024

Number of pages: 368
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd