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The Purpose of the First World War
Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.
“The” Ottoman Crimean War
This book analyzes the Crimean War from the Ottoman perspective based mainly on Ottoman and Russian primary sources, and includes an assessment of the War s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society.
Defeat in Detail
No critical analysis has ever examined the specific reasons for the Ottoman defeat. Erickson's study fills this gap by studying the operations of the Ottoman Army from October 1912 through July 1913, and by providing a comprehensive explanation of its doctrines and planning procedures. This book is written at an operational level that details every campaign at the level of the army corps. More than 30 maps, numerous orders of battle, and actual Ottoman Army operations orders illustrate how the Turks planned and fought their battles. Of particular note is the inclusion of the only detailed history in English of the Ottoman X Corps' Sarkoy amphibious invasion. Also included are definitive appe...
The Ottoman Army and the First World War
This is a comprehensive new operational military history of the Ottoman army during the First World War. Drawing from archives, official military histories, personal war narratives and sizable Turkish secondary literature, it tells the incredible story of the Ottoman army’s struggle from the mountains of the Caucasus to the deserts of Arabia and the bloody shores of Gallipoli. The Ottoman army, by opening new fronts, diverted and kept sizeable units of British, Russian and French forces away from the main theatres and even sent reinforcements to Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria. Against all odds the Ottoman army ultimately achieved some striking successes, not only on the battlefield, but in th...
A Military History of the Ottomans
The Ottoman Army had a significant effect on the history of the modern world and particularly on that of the Middle East and Europe. This study, written by a Turkish and an American scholar, is a revision and corrective to western accounts because it is based on Turkish interpretations, rather than European interpretations, of events. As the world's dominant military machine from 1300 to the mid-1700's, the Ottoman Army led the way in military institutions, organizational structures, technology, and tactics. In decline thereafter, it nevertheless remained a considerable force to be counted in the balance of power through 1918. From its nomadic origins, it underwent revolutions in military af...
Şehit Enver Paşa
Osmanlı'nın çöküşü de kuruluşu gibi bir destandır. Çöküşün kahramanları olan neslin bayraktarı Enver Paşa'dır. Onların varlığıyla İmparatorluğun çöküşünü birlikte düşünmek şaşırtıcıdır ve haksızlık gibi görünür. Onların yürekleri dağ gibiydi; hayalleri de öyle... Asla küçük düşünmüyorlardı. Yüce Devlet'i, ülkesi ve milletiyle kurtarmak için kendilerini ateşlere atarken, her biri İmparatorluğun bir uzak köşesinde, bütün Müslüman dünyayı kurtarmayı düşlüyor ve bunun heyecanı ile sarsılıyorlardı. Büyük düşünmek, büyük rüyalar görmek büyük zamanların görüntüleridir. Oysa bunlar çöküyorlardı ve çöke...
Osmanlı Yunan Savaşı Abdülhamid'in Zaferi
Abdülhamid'in Zaferi Medeniyetlerini Eski Yunan’a borçlu olduğunu düşünen devletler, Yunanlıların Osmanlı’dan kopması için ellerinden gelen her şeyi yapar. Avrupa’nın kendini büyük sanan bu küçük devleti, beş asır Devlet-i Aliyye egemenliğinde kaldığını çabucak unutur ve Osmanlı topraklarına saldırmaya cüret eder. Sultan II. Abdülhamid, meseleyi öncelikle diplomasi yoluyla halletmeye çalışır. Ancak nush ile yola getirme noktasında hiç bir netice elde edemez. Balkanların bu şımarık çocuğu, arkasına Avrupa devletlerini de alır, dolayısıyla bütün çözüm yolları kapanır. Osmanlı Devleti’ne “Hasta Adam” olarak bakıldığı bir dönemdir. islam coğrafyası, hadisenin nereye varacağını endişeyle beklemektedir. Barıştan yana olmasına rağmen Yunan azgınlığının had safhaya ulaşmış olması sultana tek bir seçenek bırakır. Ve Yunan’a savaş ilan eder.
