The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923

by Sean McMeekin

Book Overview

An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, is World War I--a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the "wars of the Ottoman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594205329
• ISBN13: 9781594205323
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher