The Ottoman Empire and the First World War
by
Mustafa Aksakal
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
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...