- Published: 15 August 2016
- ISBN: 9780718199715
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 576
- RRP: $27.99
The Ottoman Endgame
War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant WW1 events
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman Empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the book concludes with the establishment of Turkish independence in the Treaty of Lausanne, 1923. This is the first time an author has woven the entire epic together from start to finish - and it will cause many readers to fundamentally reevaluate their understanding of the conflict.
- Published: 15 August 2016
- ISBN: 9780718199715
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 576
- RRP: $27.99
There are many histories of World War One; few are as important or as readable as this one
Walter Russell Mead
Masterful and sympathetic . . . superb
Charles King, Literary Review
A marvellous exposition of the historian's art
Christopher de Bellaigue, Guardian
This readable, much-praised and opinionated work chronicles the Ottomans' entry into the war on Germany's side, its eventual defeat and its final dismemberment
Gerard Russell, The Times
It is an enormous story, and McMeekin is a worthy chronicler of it . . . The Ottoman Endgame is the most satisfactory and thought-through of the recent books on the subject that I have seen
Norman Stone, Prospect
Original and passionately written
Economist
