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- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780465097425
- Book Title
- Fall of the Ottomans : the Great War in the Middle East
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Military / World War I, Middle East / General
- Item Weight
- 15.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465097421
ISBN-13
9780465097425
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217039009
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fall of the Ottomans : the Great War in the Middle East
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Military / World War I, Middle East / General
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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23
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Reviews
" The Fall of the Ottomans is a remarkably lucid and accessible work of history, involving a large cast of contradictory and complex characters.... Telling quotations from diplomats, field commanders, and ordinary soldiers of all the combatants lend the narrative a powerful sense of immediacy."-- The Daily Beast, "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, "Rogan has written an impressively sound and fair-minded account of the fall of the Ottoman Empire."-- Max Hastings , Sunday Times (London), "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, An Economist Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Book for History Buffs Mark Mazower, Financial Times "A remarkably readable, judicious, and well-researched account of the Ottoman war in Anatolia and the Arab provinces." New York Times "Gripping.... An extraordinary tale." Economist "[An] assured account.... The book stands alongside the best histories." Wall Street Journal "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." New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Rogan offers an intricately worked but very readable account of a theocracy's demise." New Yorker "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.", "Thoroughly researched and elegantly written by one of the leading experts on the region, The Fall of the Ottomans reminds us that the 1914-18 conflict was truly a world war with huge and continuing consequences. No one is better equipped than Eugene Rogan to handle the course and impact of the war in the Middle East and he does a superb job, telling a complex and multifaceted story with great clarity, understanding, and compassion. This timely and important work restores the Middle East to its rightful place in the history of the Great War."-- Margaret MacMillan , author of The War That Ended Peace: The Road to1914, Daily Beast " The Fall of the Ottomans is a remarkably lucid and accessible work of history.... [Rogan] seems equally at home explaining the parameters of Ottoman grand strategy and the tensions of the British-Arab Alliance as he is at conjuring up the unique challenges of maneuver warfare in the Sinai and Palestine, or the brutal stalemate in the Gallipoli trenches. Telling quotations from diplomats, field commanders, and ordinary soldiers of all the combatants lend the narrative a powerful sense of immediacy." Sunday Telegraph (UK) "[A] timely and capacious history which leaves the over-trodden Flanders mud and football truces in favor of the various campaigns--at best imperfectly understood, at worst woefully unfamiliar--which the Allies waged in the Middle East. It's in the former Ottoman lands, traumatised by war, sectarianism and repression, that the legacies of the Great War continue to be grievously felt.... Here's a book whose instructive geopolitical relevance should be immediately apparent.... [A] compelling and brilliant book." Washington Independent Review of Books "[A] fresh and meticulous portrait of the Ottoman Empire: modern and modernizing, then declining, and eventually kaput.", "Acomprehensive, lucid and revealing history.... This book will surely become thedefinitive history of the war."-- The Times (UK), "Admirable and thoroughly researched.... A comprehensive history of World War I in the Middle East."-- New York Review of Books, "[A] masterly history of the Ottoman empire in its final years.... Eugene Rogan has written a meticulously researched, panoramic and engrossing history. The book is essential reading for understanding the evolution of the modern Middle East and the root causes of nearly all the conflicts that now plague the area. The Fall of the Ottomans is an altogether splendid work of historical writing."-- Ali A. Allawi , The Spectator (UK), "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, "[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, An Economist Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Book for History Buffs Mark Mazower, Financial Times "A remarkably readable, judicious, and well-researched account of the Ottoman war in Anatolia and the Arab provinces." New York Times "Gripping.... An extraordinary tale." Economist "[An] assured account.... The book stands alongside the best histories." Wall Street Journal "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." New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Rogan offers an intricately worked but very readable account of a theocracy's demise." New Yorker "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." Spectator (UK) "[A] masterly history of the Ottoman empire in its final years.... Eugene Rogan has written a meticulously researched, panoramic and engrossing history. The book is essential reading for understanding the evolution of the modern Middle East and the root causes of nearly all the conflicts that now plague the area. The Fall of the Ottomans is an altogether splendid work of historical writing." New York Review of Books "Admirable and thoroughly researched.... A comprehensive history of World War I in the Middle East." The Times (UK) "[A] comprehensive, lucid and revealing history.... This book will surely become the definitive history of the war." Guardian (UK) "Compared to the western front, the Middle East was a sideshow for all but those who called it home. Rogan has rightly put these Turks, Armenians and Arabs at the centre of his account." Daily Beast " The Fall of the Ottomans is a remarkably lucid and accessible work of history.... [Rogan] seems equally at home explaining the parameters of Ottoman grand strategy and the tensions of the British-Arab Alliance as he is at conjuring up the unique challenges of maneuver warfare in the Sinai and Palestine, or the brutal stalemate in the Gallipoli trenches. Telling quotations from diplomats, field commanders, and ordinary soldiers of all the combatants lend the narrative a powerful sense of immediacy." Sunday Telegraph (UK) "[A] timely and capacious history which leaves the over-trodden Flanders mud and football truces in favor of the various campaigns--at best imperfectly understood, at worst woefully unfamiliar--which the Allies waged in the Middle East. It's in the former Ottoman lands, traumatised by war, sectarianism and repression, that the legacies of the Great War continue to be grievously felt.... Here's a book whose instructive geopolitical relevance should be immediately apparent.... [A] compelling and brilliant book." Washington Independent Review of Books "[A] fresh and meticulous portrait of the Ottoman Empire: modern and modernizing, then declining, and eventually kaput." Open Letters Monthly "Fiercely readable. . . . In a series of fast-moving and very skillfully-written chapters, Rogan describes in great detail the politics and personalities of the Ottoman side of WWI." Independent (UK) "Personal stories drawn from diaries and memoirs enliven Eugene Rogan's satisfyingly straightforward narrative.", "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, "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 of Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, "[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, "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 , authorof Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path inthe Middle East, "Thrilling, superb, and colorful, Eugene Rogan's The Fall of the Ottomans is brilliant storytelling. Filled with flamboyant characters, impeccable scholarship that illuminates the neglected Near Eastern theater of WWI--showing how the Ottomans managed repeatedly to defeat the Allies--and revelatory analysis that explains the modern Mideast, The Fall of the Ottomans is truly essential but also truly exciting reading."-- Simon Sebag Montefiore , authorof Jerusalem: The Biography, Spectator (UK) "[A] masterly history of the Ottoman empire in its final years.... Eugene Rogan has written a meticulously researched, panoramic and engrossing history. The book is essential reading for understanding the evolution of the modern Middle East and the root causes of nearly all the conflicts that now plague the area. The Fall of the Ottomans is an altogether splendid work of historical writing." New York Review of Books "Admirable and thoroughly researched.... A comprehensive history of World War I in the Middle East." The Times (UK) "[A] comprehensive, lucid and revealing history.... This book will surely become the definitive history of the war." Guardian (UK) "Compared to the western front, the Middle East was a sideshow for all but those who called it home. Rogan has rightly put these Turks, Armenians and Arabs at the centre of his account.", "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 , authorof The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, "A remarkably readable, judicious and well-researched account of the Ottoman war in Anatolia and the Arab provinces."-- Mark Mazower , Financial Times
Dewey Decimal
940.3/56
Synopsis
"A remarkably readable, judicious and well-researched account" ( Financial Times) of World War I in the Middle East 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. In The 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 Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East., The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East An Economist Best 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. In The 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 Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.
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