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040			_aPMNP _beng _cKutubkhanah Diraja
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100			_93464 _aGingeras, Ryan
245			_aThe Last Days of the Ottoman Empire _cRyan Gingeras
260			_aLondon _bAllen Lane _c2002
300			_a339 pages _b 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (black and white) _c24cm
520			_a"The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major forces 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 the Prophet 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 explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago."
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