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The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 / Sean McMeekin.

by McMeekin, Sean, 1974-

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Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House, 2016, c2015.

Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Middle East -- History -- 1914-1923.

Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1914-1945.

9780143109808 (pbk.)

9781594205323 (hc.)

xxii, 550 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.

First published in hardcover in 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-535) and index.

Introdution: The Sykes-Picot myth and the modern Middle East -- Prologue: September 7, 1876 -- Part I: The sick man of Europe -- The sick patient -- Radical surgery: the young Turks -- The jackals pounce -- Searching for an ally -- Part II: The War of 1914: Turkey plays its hand -- Manna from Mars: the arrival of SMS Goeben -- The battle for Ottoman belligerence -- Basra, Sarıkamış, and Suez -- Dardanelles -- Gallipoli -- Massacre in Turkish Armenia -- A cold winter for the British Empire -- Erzurum and Kut -- Double bluff -- Ottoman holy war and Arab revolt -- Russia's moment -- Turning the Arabs -- Brest-Litovsk -- Part III: Death and rebirth -- Mudros -- Sèvres -- Sakarya -- Smyrna -- Lausanne and the Ottoman legacy.

"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. The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Middle East - much of which is still felt today. McMeekin makes new the epic stories we know from the Ottoman front, from Gallipoli to the exploits of Lawrence in Arabia. His accounts of the lead-up to World War I and the Ottoman Empire's central role in the war itself offers an entirely new and deeper vision of the conflict. McMeekin reconceives our inherited Anglo-French understanding of the war's outcome and the collapse of the empire that followed. The emergence of modern Turkey and the carve-up of the rest of the Ottoman Empire as it has never been told before, offering a new perspective on such issues as the ethno-religious bloodletting and forced population transfers which attended the breakup of empire, the Balfour Declaration, the toppling of the caliphate, and the partition of Iraq and Syria - bringing the contemporary consequences into clear focus. Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard College. He is the author of July 1914: Countdown to War"--Provided by publisher.

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