Collapse of the Ottoman Empire

Eugene Rogan, who deals with the collapse of a magnificent empire that ruled for centuries with the First World War, examines in detail all the fronts on which the Ottoman Empire fought throughout the war that determined its fate. While revealing the plans and strategies of the warring parties in a wide "battlefield" extending from the sad Sarikamis defeat to the victory of Çanakkale, from the fall of Jerusalem to the Caucasian front, he also touches upon how the Great War in the Middle East affected the Western Front. In addition to the hunger and poverty caused by all-out war and mobilization, it also reveals the situation and fate of Armenians, Greeks and other minority elements living in the Ottoman Empire during the war, with both documents and first-hand testimonies.

“Now is the time to place the Ottoman front in its true place in the history of both the Great War and the modern Middle East. Because the Ottomans' entry into the war affected the European war more than any other event, turning it into a world war. The battlefields of the Middle East were the battlefields where the international character of the war was most evident. […] The Ottoman front was a real tower of Babel, where an unprecedented war took place between international armies.”

-EUGENE ROGAN-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 477

Size: 15 x 21.5

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition