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The Turks Today
Andrew Mango
Overlook TP
Overlook TP
Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country should be accepted as a member of the family of...
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Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged (Modern Wars In Perspective)
Virginia Aksan
Longman
Longman
The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at the Siege of Vienna. Tracing the empire's conflicts of the next two centuries, The...
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Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence
Aliza Marcus
NYU Press
NYU Press
The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West, Kurds are now highly visible actors on the world's political stage. More than half live in Turkey, where the Kurdish...
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Gallipoli (Perennial Classics)
Alan Moorehead
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18,...
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Troy C. 1700-1250 BC (Fortress, 17)
Nic Fields
Osprey Publishing
Osprey Publishing
Hisarlik is a small place, a sandy stone strewn hillock cut up into gullies and hummocks. Yet its historical significance is immense, for this is the site of Troy - the legendary city whose story sprawls across cultures, time and geography. The tale...
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Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide
Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller
University of California Press
University of California Press
Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant...
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