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THE OTTOMAN ENDGAME
War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
An astonishing retelling of early 20th century history from the Ottoman perspective, based on groundbreaking work in the Ottoman and Russian archives, and delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East.
In The Ottoman Endgame, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin offers a blistering exposé of the West’s partition plans for the Ottoman Empire, in which the Russians were actually the driving force. British politician Sir Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Georges-Picot, always painted as the main actors of this story, are shown by McMeekin to have in fact been dupes of the Russian negotiator, Sazanov.
World War I’s endgame is magnificently reconceived, beginning with a revolutionary account of Brest-Litovsk and the carve-up of European Russia, with new revelations on occupied Ukraine and German plans to depose the Bolsheviks by force in fall 1918.
Finally, the book relates the story of the birth of modern Turkey, including long-forgotten episodes like the King-Crane commission report, which gave a snapshot of public opinion in the Middle East on the eve of the European takeover. Very little of this story, in short, happened the way we think it did.
Every so often, an important new work of history completely reshapes our understanding of a subject of enormous historical and contemporary importance. The Ottoman Endgame is such a book. It is also written with great wit and storytelling flair, thrilling in both its judgments and as an experience of narrative history as high art.
Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard College. His works include July 1914: Countdown to War (Basic Books 2013), which was reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review; The Russian Origins of the First World War (Belknap Press 2011), which won the Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Book Prize and was nominated for the Lionel Gelber Prize; and The Berlin to Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898–1918 (Belknap Press 2010; Allen Lane), which won the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. He previously taught at Koç University, Istanbul, and Yale University.
World War I’s endgame is magnificently reconceived, beginning with a revolutionary account of Brest-Litovsk and the carve-up of European Russia, with new revelations on occupied Ukraine and German plans to depose the Bolsheviks by force in fall 1918.
Finally, the book relates the story of the birth of modern Turkey, including long-forgotten episodes like the King-Crane commission report, which gave a snapshot of public opinion in the Middle East on the eve of the European takeover. Very little of this story, in short, happened the way we think it did.
Every so often, an important new work of history completely reshapes our understanding of a subject of enormous historical and contemporary importance. The Ottoman Endgame is such a book. It is also written with great wit and storytelling flair, thrilling in both its judgments and as an experience of narrative history as high art.
Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard College. His works include July 1914: Countdown to War (Basic Books 2013), which was reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review; The Russian Origins of the First World War (Belknap Press 2011), which won the Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Book Prize and was nominated for the Lionel Gelber Prize; and The Berlin to Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898–1918 (Belknap Press 2010; Allen Lane), which won the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. He previously taught at Koç University, Istanbul, and Yale University.
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