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_cKutubkhanah Diraja
082 _a956.10154
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_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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