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Author_Patrick Kinross
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biography
brutal civil war
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collapse of Ottoman Empire
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Father of modern Turkey
First World War
history of the Middle East
Mustafa Kemal
powerful figures of the 20th century
the cause of the East
Turkish history
Product details
- ISBN 9781842125991
- Weight: 759g
- Dimensions: 152 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2001
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.
With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the creation of one man, the soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal, who dragged his country from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and in defeating Western imperialists inspired 'the cause of the East'. Lord Kinross writes of the intrigues of empires, the brutalities of civil war, personal courage - showing us Ataturk, the incarnation of glory - as well as of Kemal's youthful ambition, and his problems with his wife.
Patrick Kinross was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, after which he became a journalist. During World War II he was posted as intelligence officer to the Middle East and later served as press counsellor at the British Embassy in Cairo.
