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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

Autor Eugene Rogan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2016
The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East

AnEconomistBest Book of the Year

By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. InThe Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia,The Fall of the Ottomansis essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780465097425
ISBN-10: 0465097421
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books

Notă biografică

Eugene Roganis a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford and director of the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford.

Recenzii

"A remarkably readable, judicious and well-researched account of the Ottoman war in Anatolia and the Arab provinces."—Mark Mazower,Financial Times
"Rogan has written an impressively sound and fair-minded account of the fall of the Ottoman Empire."—Max Hastings,Sunday Times(London)
"[An] assured account.... The book stands alongside the best histories."—Economist
"The book is not only exact and readable but also has the elements of a thriller and thus is all the more remarkable in view of its thoroughness in covering a linguistically and historically difficult subject."—Wall Street Journal
"This engrossing history unfolds in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, capturing the complex array of battles, brutalities, and alliances that brought down the six-hundred-year-old Ottoman Empire.... Rogan argues that the empire's ultimate demise was the result not of losing the war but of a clumsily negotiated peace. His balanced narrative unearths many seeds of current conflicts."—
New Yorker

"Admirable and thoroughly researched.... A comprehensive history of World War I in the Middle East."—New York Review of Books
"[An] intricately worked but very readable account of the Ottoman theocracy's demise.... This is an extraordinary tale and Rogan recounts it well."—New York Times
"To have written a page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival is a remarkable achievement."—Wall Street Journal
"Asthe Middle East is collapsing all around us, if you wanted to know where it allbegan and when, read this great book by a great Oxford historian."—Fareed Zakaria,Fareed Zakaria GPS, Book of the Week
"[Rogan's]account is geopolitical and military writing at its best - taut, anecdotal andextraordinarily researched. A tangled story, to be sure, one that both commandsand rewards the reader's attention."—Washington Times
"Acomprehensive, lucid and revealing history.... This book will surely become thedefinitive history of the war."—The Times(UK)
"TheFall of the Ottomansis a remarkably lucid and accessible work of history,involving a large cast of contradictory and complex characters.... Tellingquotations from diplomats, field commanders, and ordinary soldiers of all thecombatants lend the narrative a powerful sense of immediacy."—The Daily Beast
"EugeneRogan has given us an absorbing history of the war's principal military andpolitical battles in the Middle East through the eyes of those who fought them."—Mustafa Aksakal, chair of Modern Turkish Studies and associate professor of history at Georgetown University
"[A]masterly history of the Ottoman empire in its final years.... Eugene Rogan haswritten a meticulously researched, panoramic and engrossing history. The bookis essential reading for understanding the evolution of the modern Middle Eastand the root causes of nearly all the conflicts that now plague the area.TheFall of the Ottomansis an altogether splendid work of historical writing."—Ali A. Allawi,The Spectator(UK)
"Afantastic, readable, and much needed study of the most chronically neglected ofall of the Great War's participants: the Ottoman Empire. Informative andenlightening."—Alexander Watson,author ofRing of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
"Thisis a gripping, masterful account of World War One in the Middle East from thevantage point of the Ottoman Empire.... Combining magisterial scholarship witha keen sense of drama and lively narrative style, it tells a grim story but afascinating one.... If you want to understand the underlying causes of conflictand violence in the Middle East in the last century, you will not find a betterbook."—Avi Shlaim,author ofThe Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
"Thisbook opens up a window on vital chapters in the shaping of the Middle East aswell as the history of the Great War, bringing together vivid personal detailswith a broad historical panorama of human suffering and heroism, theincompetence and folly of the general staffs, and the scheming of the greatpowers."—Rashid Khalidi,author ofResurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East
"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written by one ofthe leading experts on the region,The Fall of the Ottomansreminds usthat the 1914-18 conflict was truly a world war with huge and continuingconsequences. No one is better equipped than Eugene Rogan to handle the courseand impact of the war in the Middle East and he does a superb job, telling acomplex and multifaceted story with great clarity, understanding, andcompassion. This timely and important work restores the Middle East to itsrightful place in the history of the Great War."—Margaret MacMillan,author ofThe War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
"Thrilling,superb, and colorful, Eugene Rogan'sThe Fall of the Ottomansisbrilliant storytelling. Filled with flamboyant characters, impeccablescholarship that illuminates the neglected Near Eastern theater of WWI--showinghow the Ottomans managed repeatedly to defeat the Allies--and revelatoryanalysis that explains the modern Mideast,The Fall of the Ottomansistruly essential but also truly exciting reading."—Simon Sebag Montefiore,author ofJerusalem: The Biography