- Published: 28 March 2016
- ISBN: 9781846144394
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $37.00
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920
- Published: 28 March 2016
- ISBN: 9781846144394
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $37.00
Compelling and brilliant
Sunday Telegraph
Thrilling, superb, and colourful . . . Filled with flamboyant characters, impeccable scholarship that illuminates the neglected Near Eastern theatre of WWI and revelatory analysis that explains the modern Mideast, The Fall of the Ottomans is truly essential but also truly exciting reading
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Gripping . . . this is an extraordinary tale
Bruce Clark, The New York Times Book Review
This timely and important work restores the Middle East to its rightful place in the history of the Great War
Margaret MacMillan, author of The War That Ended Peace
An excellent historian
Max Hastings, Sunday Times
A timely history of the Ottoman war that, refreshingly, places Turks, Arabs and the Armenian genocide at its centre
Christopher de Bellaigue, Guardian
Masterly, meticulously researched, panoramic and engrossing . . . a historian of the first rank
Ali A. Allawi, Spectator