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An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman point of view, delivering serious new insights into World Conflict I and the modern day Middle East. Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its own successor states, in which the central issue, of course, was World Conflict I - a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he phone calls the "wars of the Ottoman succession", we know much less than we think. The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire proper narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Midsection East - a lot of which is still believed today. The Ottoman Endgame: Conflict, Trend, and the Making of the present day Middle East pulls from McMeekin's many years of groundbreaking research in newly exposed Ottoman and Russian archives. With great storytelling flair, McMeekin makes new the epic stories we know from the Ottoman forward, from Gallipoli to the exploits of Lawrence in Arabia, and introduces a vast range of new stories to American listeners. His accounts of the lead-up to World Conflict I and the Ottoman Empire's central role in the war itself provides an completely new and deeper eye-sight of the issue. Harnessing not only Ottoman and Russian but also British isles, German, French, American, and Austro-Hungarian resources, the result is a truly pioneering work of scholarship that provides full justice to a multitiered war affecting many belligerents. McMeekin also brilliantly reconceives our inherited Anglo-French knowledge of the war's result and the collapse of the empire that used. The book chronicles the emergence of modern Turkey and the carve up of the rest of the Ottoman Empire as it has never been advised before, supplying a new point of view on such issues as the ethno-religious bloodletting and compelled population transfers that attended the breakup of empire, the Balfour Declaration, the toppling of the caliphate, and the partition of Iraq and Syria - providing the contemporary repercussions into clear focus. Once in awhile, a work of history completely reshapes our knowledge of a subject of extensive historical and modern day importance. The Ottoman Endgame is such a book, an instantly definitive and thrilling example of narrative history as high art.
