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Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East / Roger Ford.

by Ford, Roger, 1947-

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New York : Pegasus Books, 2010.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Middle East.

9781605980911 :

x, 496 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.

Overture. The route to war -- Mesopotamia. To the Garden of Eden -- Besieged at Kut -- To Baghdad and beyond -- On to Mosul -- The Caucasus, Armenia, Anatolia and Persia. Sarikamis faciasi -- The Turks fight back -- Anatolia invaded -- Armenia, Azerbaijan and Persia -- The Dardanelles and Gallipoli. To Constantinople! -- Landings and stalemates -- A failure of leadership -- Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Suez and Sinai -- To the gates of Palestine -- Through Gaza to Judaea -- By way of Armageddon -- Aftermath and conclusions. Defeat and victory, dismemberment and renewal.

Evaluates World War I in the Middle East and its links to present-day conflicts, assessing the destruction of the region's Ottoman political system, and the emergence of competing interests.

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