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  • The Shortest History of Turkey

    From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic

    by Benjamin C. Fortna ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    From the Ottoman Empire to today’s authoritarian regime—discover the story of a nation caught between Islamic traditions and pressures to westernizeThrough more than nine centuries of shifting borders, environmental change, and political evolution, Turkey has been a cultural melting pot and a nation-state bent on ethnic unity. It has seen conquest and reform, appeals to tradition and calls to ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Circassian

    A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent

    by Benjamin C. Fortna ...
    Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire and ushered in the modern Middle East. Drawing on Esref's private papers for the first time, these pages tell ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey

    Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945

    Edited by Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis, Paraskevas Konortas ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living within their borders.Making extensive use of new archival material, this volume transcends the tendency to compare the Greek-Orthodox in Turkey ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    The Shortest History of Turkey

    From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic

    by Benjamin C. Fortna ...
    Narrated by Nas Mehdi ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    The world-changing story of Turkey—a country caught between two worldsThis brilliant distillation traces Turkey's long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire—the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history—to the emergence of the modern Turkish Republic in the early twentieth century and the populist, authoritarian leadership of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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    Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts—including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects—are rooted in the region's political ... Read more

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  • Nanjing 1937

    Battle for a Doomed City

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    A true story of the Sino-Japanese conflict: A "valuable account of a little-known event [and] a grim reminder of the darker side of war" ( Military History Monthly).The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the twentieth century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign ... Read more

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  • The Cage

    The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

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    "The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Fall of BaghdadIn the closing days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of ... Read more

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  • Tomahawk and Musket

    French and Indian Raids in the Ohio Valley 1758

    by René Chartrand ...
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    In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley.As his army closed in upon the fort, he sent Major Grant of the 77th Highlanders and 850 men on a reconnaissance in force against the fort. The French, alerted to this move, launched their own counter-raid. ... Read more

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  • The Greek Revolution (Illustrated Edition)

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    The Greek War of Independence was fought against the occupying Ottoman Turks from 1821-1832. Started in part by the Filiki Eteria movement in Greece, uprising 1821 soon lead to a full scale war. By 1828, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged their support to Greece and helped defeat the Turks. In 1832, Greece was recognized as an independent country. Greek Independence day is ... Read more

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  • Evolution of a Revolt

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    This short (22 page) article by T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia) was first published in the Army Quarterly in 1920. It is incredibly concise and well written. It contains all of the major analysis and conclusions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (his book and most famous work) without the narrative of his war experiences. It is the "cliff notes" to Lawrence, written by Lawrence himself. It is ... Read more

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  • THE SPANISH COCKPIT

    An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War

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    Austrian sociologist and disillusioned former Comintern official Franz Borkenau visited Republican Spain between August and September 1936, and again in January-February 1937. The account of his first-hand experiences as an independent socialist observer in revolutionary Spain,‘T***he Spanish Cockpit***’, was published in the early summer of 1937, when it impressed and influenced the recently ... Read more

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  • Grey Wolf-- Mustafa Kemal

    An Intimate Study of a Dictator

    by H.C. Armstrong ...
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    Mustafa Kemal was known both as a vicious dictator and the iron-willed creator of modern Turkey however little was known about him and he was viewed as an enigma by many. Originally published in 1932, Armstrong delves into Kemal’s career and personal life in great detail showing how he moved between revolutionary, soldier and politician whilst also discussing his love of women, drinking and ... Read more

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