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

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New York, N.Y. : Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House, 2016, c2015.

9780143109808 (pbk.)

9781594205323 (hc.)

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

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.

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