The Ottoman Endgame

The Ottoman EndgameDescription by Sean McMeekin Paperback 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 Ia story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what

MacMillan shows how the fateful decisions of a few powerful people changed the course of history

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The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service

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and uncensored letters and memoirs

With the aid of cutting-edge fieldwork conducted by the author in these subterranean locales

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Drawing on hundreds of letters and diary entries

and the Ottomans

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