| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Cambridge military histories |
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Cambridge military histories.
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| Contents |
Introduction : pursuing sovereignty in the age of imperialism -- The intellectual and emotional climate after the Balkan Wars -- 1914 : war with Greece? -- The Ottomans within the international order -- The Great War as great opportunity : the Ottoman July crisis -- Tug of war : Penelope's game -- Salvation through war? -- Conclusion : the decision for war remembered |
| Summary |
"Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded, ' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the Ottomans enter the war because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams? Based on previously untapped Ottoman and European sources, Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic study challenges this consensus. It demonstrates that responsibility went far beyond Enver, that the road to war was paved by the demands of a politically interested public, and that the Ottoman leadership sought the German alliance as the only way out of a web of international threats and domestic insecurities, opting for an escape whose catastrophic consequences for the empire and seismic impact on the Middle East are felt even today."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- History -- Mehmed V, 1909-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138828
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Turkey -- History, Military -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Turkey
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Osmanisches Reich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511551987 |
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0511551983 |
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9780511465062 |
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0511465068 |
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0511464320 |
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9780511464324 |
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1107199506 |
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9781107199507 |
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9781281982483 |
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9786611982485 |
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9780511461996 |
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0511463537 |
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9780511463532 |
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