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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 19081923
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An astonishing retelling of twentiethcentury history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle EastBetween 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, is World War Ia story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the wars of the Ottoman succession, we know far less than we think. The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Middle Eastmuch of which is still felt today.The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East draws from McMeekins years of groundbreaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives. With great storytelling flair, McMeekin makes new the epic stories we know from the Ottoman front, from Gallipoli to the exploits of Lawrence in Arabia, and introduces a vast range of new stories to Western readers. His accounts of the leadup to World War I and the Ottoman Empires central role in the war itself offers an entirely new and deeper vision of the conflict. Harnessing not only Ottoman and Russian but also British, German, French, American, and AustroHungarian sources, the result is a truly pioneering work of scholarship that gives full justice to a multitiered war involving many belligerents.McMeekin also brilliantly reconceives our inherited AngloFrench understanding of the wars outcome and the collapse of the empire that followed. The book chronicles the emergence of modern Turkey and the carveup of the rest of the Ottoman Empire as it has never been told before, offering a new perspective on such issues as the ethnoreligious bloodletting and forced population transfers which attended the breakup of empire, the Balfour Declaration, the toppling of the caliphate, and the partition of Iraq and Syriabringing the contemporary consequences into clear focus.Every so often, a work of history completely reshapes our understanding of a subject of enormous historical and contemporary importance. The Ottoman Endgame is such a book, an instantly definitive and thrilling example of narrative history as high art.
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