Eden To Armageddon

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780753827987

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Genre: Humanities / History / General & World History

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Turkey, the First World War and the making of the Middle East.

The Great War in the Middle East began with the invasion of the Garden of Eden, and ended with a momentous victory on the site of the biblical Armageddon. Almost incredibly, the whole story of this epic war has never been told in a single volume until now. In this important new history Roger Ford describes a conflict in its entirety: the war in Mesopotamia, which would end with the creation of the countries of Iran and Iraq; the desperate struggle in the Caucasus, where the Turks had long-standing territorial ambitions; the doomed attacks on the Gallipoli Peninsula that would lead to ignominous defeat; and the final act in Palestine, where the Ottoman Empire finally crumbled. He ends with a detailed description of the messy aftermath of the war, and the new conflicts in a reshaped Middle East that would play such a huge part in shaping world affairs for many generations to come.

Reviews

This is a fascinating account of how our times began.
CATHOLIC HERALD
A timely reminder of the important role the Middle East played in the Great War
CONTEMPORARY REVIEW