The Fall of the Ottomans
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Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1846144396
ISBN 13
9781846144394
Category
General history of Asia Middle East (Near East)
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Publication Year
2017
Pages
486
Description
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 Eugene Rogans 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 - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 748 | 956 ROGA | 1 | S1 | Yes |