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The Turkish War of Independence: A Military History, 1919-1923 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798765130124)
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Edward J. Erickson
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xThe dramatic story of the turbulent birth of modern Turkey, which rose out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire to fight off Allied occupiers, Greek invaders, and internal ethnic groups to proclaim a new republic under Mustafa Kemal (Atat?rk).
It is exceedingly rare to run across a major historical event that has no comprehensive English-language history, but such was the case until The Turkish War of Independence brought together all the main strands of the story, including the chaotic ending of World War I in Asia Minor and the numerous military fronts on which the Turks defied odds, fighting off several armies to create their own state from the defeated ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
This important book culminates Erickson's three-part series on the early 20th-century military history of the Ottomans and Turkey. Making wide use of specialized, hard-to-find Western and Turkish memoirs and military sources, it presents a narrative of the fighting, which eventually brought the Turkish Nationalist armies to victory. Often termed the "Greco-Turkish War," an incomplete description that misses its geographic and multinational scope, this war pitted Greek, Armenian, French, British, Italian, and insurgent forces against the Nationalists; the narrative shows these conflicts to have been distinct and separate to Turkey's opponents, while the Turkish side saw them as an interconnected whole.
Author: Edward J. Erickson
ISBN-13: 9798765130124
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2024
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.87d
It is exceedingly rare to run across a major historical event that has no comprehensive English-language history, but such was the case until The Turkish War of Independence brought together all the main strands of the story, including the chaotic ending of World War I in Asia Minor and the numerous military fronts on which the Turks defied odds, fighting off several armies to create their own state from the defeated ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
This important book culminates Erickson's three-part series on the early 20th-century military history of the Ottomans and Turkey. Making wide use of specialized, hard-to-find Western and Turkish memoirs and military sources, it presents a narrative of the fighting, which eventually brought the Turkish Nationalist armies to victory. Often termed the "Greco-Turkish War," an incomplete description that misses its geographic and multinational scope, this war pitted Greek, Armenian, French, British, Italian, and insurgent forces against the Nationalists; the narrative shows these conflicts to have been distinct and separate to Turkey's opponents, while the Turkish side saw them as an interconnected whole.
Author: Edward J. Erickson
ISBN-13: 9798765130124
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2024
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.87d
By Edward J. Erickson
xEdward J. Erickson is professor of international relations at Antalya Bilim University; retired professor of military history from the Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA; and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who qualified as a foreign area officer specializing in Turkey.
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