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THE LAST DAYS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE - RYAN GING...

'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates  and Gingeras narrates it
with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire  published to
coincide with the centenary of its dissolution The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major
facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced  but still
remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian
Ocean  the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one  with the Sultan ruling
over the Holy Sites and  as Caliph  the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire's fateful
decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914  despite its successfully defending
itself for much of the war  doomed it to disaster  breaking it up into a series of European
colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras's superb new book 
published for the centenary of the last Sultan's departure into exile  explains how these
epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so
long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies  or could something be saved?
In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region  what would be the price paid to create
a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an
extraordinary  bitter epic  brilliantly told here.

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