- 432 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The dramatic story of the turbulent birth of modern Turkey, which rose out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire to fight off Allied occupiers, Greek invaders, and internal ethnic groups to proclaim a new republic under Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk). It is exceedingly rare to run across a major historical event that has no comprehensive English-language history, but such was the case until The Turkish War of Independence brought together all the main strands of the story, including the chaotic ending of World War I in Asia Minor and the numerous military fronts on which the Turks defied odds, fighting off several armies to create their own state from the defeated ashes of the Ottoman Empire. This important book culminates Erickson's three-part series on the early 20th-century military history of the Ottomans and Turkey. Making wide use of specialized, hard-to-find Western and Turkish memoirs and military sources, it presents a narrative of the fighting, which eventually brought the Turkish Nationalist armies to victory. Often termed the "Greco-Turkish War, " an incomplete description that misses its geographic and multinational scope, this war pitted Greek, Armenian, French, British, Italian, and insurgent forces against the Nationalists; the narrative shows these conflicts to have been distinct and separate to Turkey's opponents, while the Turkish side saw them as an interconnected whole.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One: The End of World War I
- Two: Call to Arms
- Three: To the First İnönü Campaign
- Four: The Long War against Insurgents
- Five: A Short War on the Eastern Front
- Six: The Franco-Turkish War
- Seven: Second İnönü and Kütahya-Eskişehir
- Eight: The Culminating Point at Sakarya
- Nine: Operational and Strategic Pause
- Ten: The Great Offensive and the Pursuit to Izmir
- Eleven: The Advance to the Straits and the Armistice
- Twelve: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Establishment of the Turkish Republic
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Casualties by Professor Konstantinos Travlos
- Appendix B: Campaigns of the Turkish War of Independence
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author