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“william j olson”

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  • Anglo-Iranian Relations During World War I

    by William J. Olson ...
    A study of Anglo-Iranian relations during World War I. This book analyzes such diplomacy as an example of great power politics in regional affairs, examining Britain's concern to maintain stability in Iran and exclude foreign interests from the Persian Gulf and the approaches to India. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • A Peace to End All Peace

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

    by David Fromkin ...
    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

    $13.99 USD

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  • Ataturk

    by Patrick Kinross ...
    The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the creation of one man, the soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal, who dragged his country from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

    by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ...
    Nutuk was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi. The speech covered the events between the start of the Turkish War of Independence on May 19, 1919, and the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, in 1923.Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first ... Read more

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  • Atatürk

    The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

    by Andrew Mango ...
    A "superlative [and] exhaustively researched" biography of "one of the most complex and controversial figures in twentieth-century world history" ( Library Journal).Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan, and secured ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Coup

    1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations

    by Ervand Abrahamian ...
    An "absorbing" account of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran—essential reading for anyone concerned about Iran's role in the world today ( Harper's Magazine).In August 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the shah and replaced his puppet ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity

    The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

    by Taner Akçam ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
    An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocideIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire of Sand

    How Britain Made the Middle East

    by Walter Reid ...
    "A story of how empires rattle along until their sheer scale makes them nonsensical . . . [Reid's] very capable prose just begs to be read" ( The Scotsman).At the end of the First World War, Britain, and to a much lesser extent France, created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there. Frontiers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    by Edward J. Erickson ...
    Series Book 30 - Command
    Mustafa Kemal was one of the 20th century's greatest combat commanders.Born in Salonika to a middle-class family, this book follows the life of a great commander who served in the Italo–Turkish War of 1911–12 and the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 before taking command of the 19th Division based in Gallipoli during World War l. His sterling service led to his promotion to corps command during the fighting ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Enemy on the Euphrates

    The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921

    by Ian Rutledge ...
    In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for ... Read more

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  • Arabia without Sultans

    by Fred Halliday ...
    Fred Halliday writes: 'The Arab Middle East is the one with the longest history of contact with the west; yet it is probably the one least understood. Part of the misunderstanding is due to the romantic mythology that has long appeared to shroud the deserts of the peninsula. Where old myths have broken down, new ones have absorbed them or taken their place. Now the Sheikh of Arabia has stepped ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    **'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman**The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, ... Read more

    $14.59 USD