The Fall of the Ottomans

Thrilling, superb, and colourful, Eugene Rogan's Fall of the Ottomans is brilliant storytelling. Filled with flamboyant characters, impeccable scholarship that illuminates the neglected Near Eastern theater of WWI - showing how the Ottomans managed to perform unexpectedly well against the allies - and revelatory analysis that explains the modern Mideast, The Fall of the Ottomans is truly essential but also truly exciting reading

Simon Sebag Montefiore

A vivid account of the fighting that led to the fall of one of the world's great empires

Roger Owen, Professor Emeritus of Middle East History, Harvard University

Eugene Rogan has written a meticulously researched, panoramic, and engrossing history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire. This book is essential reading for understanding the evolution of the modern Middle East and the root causes of nearly all the conflicts that now plague the area. An altogether splendid work of historical writing

Ali Allawi (author of The Occupation of Iraq)

An excellent historian who does a fine job. Impressively sound and fair-minded

Max Hastings, Sunday Times

A timely and capacious history... compelling and brilliant

Jeremy Seal, Sunday Telegraph

Remarkably readable, judicious and well-researched

Mark Mazower, Financial Times

About the sad end of dreams of empire, a subject that was not represented accurately in my high school textbooks back in Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk