The Fall of the Ottomans

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERbr>br>WINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016br>br>''Truly essential'' Simon Sebag Montefiorebr>br>The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Roganbr>br>For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous predators waiting to finish it off. Following the Ottoman decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers the British, French and Russians hatched a plan to finish the Ottomans off: an ambitious and unprecedented invasion of Gallipoli...br>br>Eugene Rogan''s remarkable book recreates one of the most important but poorly understood fronts of the First World War. Despite fighting back with great skill and ferocity against the Allied onslaught and humiliating the British both at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia (Iraq), the Ottomans were ultimately defeated, clearing the way for the making, for better or worse, of a new Middle East which has endured to the present.>

Product details

• Authors: Eugene Rogan, Rogan Eugene
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780141999074
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199907-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Ottoman Empire, First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I