The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Cambridge Military Histories)
By: Mustafa Aksakal
4.07
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's d…
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1. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
By: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
3.77
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompasse… read more
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4. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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6. The First World War
By: John Keegan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more
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7. The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
By: Sean McMeekin
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
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8. Zeytindağı
By: Falih Rıfkı Atay
4.16
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
"Büyük Harbi" ve sonuçlarını Falih Rıfkı'nın özgün anlatımı ile yeniden "öğrendim" diyebilirim. Ger… read more
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"Yalnız Kudüs'te dilencinin çerçevesi ihtişamlıdır: Medine, dini mallaştırmış ve maddeleştirmiş bir Asya pazarı idi. Kudüs dini oyunlaştırmış bir Garp tiyatrosudur."-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Trakya'dan Erzurum'a doğru koca gövdesini yatırmış, memelerini sömürge ve milliyetlerin ağzına teslim etmiş, artık sütü kanı ile karışık emilen bir sağmal idi."-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Kudüs kelimesi Hıristiyanlığı hatıra getirir. Fakat ne Kudüs'te, ne de Filistin'de Hıristiyanlık diye bir mesele yoktur. Kudüs'ün Hıristiyanlığı, Ortodoks Petersburg, Protestan Berlin, dinsiz Paris, …"-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Ölüm sabahları, herkes birbiriyle ürkerek ve ürpererek konuşur. Fakat ertesi güne kadar her şey unutulup gitti. Müse'nin mersiyesini ilhanx hatırlar mısınız? Paris'te her şey unutulmak için eğer on b…"-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
9. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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10. Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908- 1918
By: None
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed even… read more
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11. Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
By: Caroline Finkel
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
According to the Ottoman chronicles, the first sultan, Osman, had a dream in which a tree emerged f… read more
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12. The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923
By: Sean McMeekin
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering prof… read more
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13. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
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14. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
15. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
By: David I. Kertzer
4.28
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
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16. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
By: Sean McMeekin
4.28
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
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17. Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
By: Alberto Manguel
3.76
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An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of… read more
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"She thinks, The boy has issues. He’s no longer a surly, grumpy, malicious adolescent, rude to his elders, “fat, and scant of breath."-Alberto Manguel, Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
"A biologia diz-nos que descendemos de criaturas de carne e osso, mas, no fundo, sabemos bem que somos filhos e filhas de fantasmas de papel e tinta."-Alberto Manguel, Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
18. Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison
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4.41
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19. The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Cambridge Military Histories)
By: Mustafa Aksakal
4.07
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
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By: Şevket Süreyya Aydemir
4.65
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Tek Adam'da, değişen bir dünyada çöken bir dinsel - geleneksel imparatorluk… read more
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"Kendi hammaddesini, kendi kabiliyet kudret ve ihtiraslarıyla yoğurmuştur. Bu suretle ve bu akış içinde, her tarihi şahsiyet gibi o da, kendini yaratmıştır. Zaten 'Tek Adam' demek, bu demek değil midi…"-Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Tek Adam Mustafa Kemal : 1919-1922 (Tek Adam, #2)
21. Talât Paşa
By: Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın
4.17
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Elinizdeki kitap hem biyografi, hem hatırât, hem de yâdigâr türünde bir eser. Hüseyin Cahit bu küçü… read more
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