Order and Insecurity in Germany and Turkey - Military Cultures of the 1930s

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Past
Nation
Politics
Enemies and War
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Emre Sencer is Associate Professor of History and Chair of International Studies at Knox College, USA.

Summary

This book examines processes of military, political and cultural transformation from the perspective of officers in two countries: Germany and Turkey in the 1930s. The national fates of both countries interlocked during the Great War years and their close alliance dictated their joint defeat in 1918.
While the two countries were manifestly different in their politics and culture, both had lost the war and both went through powerful changes in its immediate aftermath. They painted themselves as the victims of a new imperialist order, whose chief representatives were Britain and France. The result was a radical militarism that unleashed violent currents in these countries – developments that were to be more transformative than the impact of the war experience itself.

Product details

• Authors: Sencer, Emre Sencer, Emre (Knox College Sencer, Sencer Emre
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138215733
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21573-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, Ottoman Empire, First World War, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Turkey, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Warfare & defence, Second World War, Middle Eastern history, General and world history, Warfare and defence, Modern warfare, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I