The Fall of the Ottomans

Resumen del libro

*FULLY UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016'Truly essential' Simon Sebag MontefioreThe final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene RoganFor some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous predators waiting to finish it off. Following the Ottoman decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers the British, French and Russians hatched a plan to finish the Ottomans off: an ambitious and unprecedented invasion of Gallipoli...

Eugene Rogan's remarkable book recreates one of the most important but poorly understood fronts of the First World War. Despite fighting back with great skill and ferocity against the Allied onslaught and humiliating the British both at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia (Iraq), the Ottomans were ultimately defeated, clearing the way for the making, for better or worse, of a new Middle East which has endured to the present.

Biografía del autor

Eugene Rogan es profesor de Historia Moderna de Oriente Medio en la Universidad de Oxford y miembro de la Academia Británica. Su primer libro, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire, ganó el Premio Albert Hourani y el Premio M. Fuad Köprülü. Los árabes. Del Imperio otomano a la actualidad (Crítica, 2010) se ha convertido en una obra de referencia, considerado uno de los mejores libros del año por The Financial Times, The Economist y The Atlantic Monthly. En Crítica también ha publicado La caída de los otomanos. La Gran Guerra en el Oriente Próximo (2016) y Los sucesos de Damasco. La masacre de 1860 y la formación del Oriente Medio moderno (2025).