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Carregando... The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World… (edição: 2010)de Mustafa Aksakal (Autor)
Detalhes da ObraThe Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War de Mustafa Aksakal    Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A tightly constructed analysis of the Turko-German alliance of 1914 that breaks with the image of Enver Pasha bullying the Young Turks into an alliance with Germany as a means of achieving his own will to power. Instead, Aksakal finds an Ottoman polity that felt betrayed by the existing international system and which was desperately seeking a patron, since Britain had entered into the Entente with Russia and appears to have regarded Constantinople's concerns as being of negligible consideration. This being the case, alliance with Berlin was an imperative, even if the Young Turks were quite realistic about their military capacity and would have preferred friendly neutrality. Considering the course of events up until 1914, this was not an unreasonable, if dangerous course of action; particularly since not taking action had its own dangers. (  ) Shrike58 | Feb 7, 2015 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieCambridge Military Histories (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 the war because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams? Based on previously untapped Ottoman and European sources, Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic study challenges this consensus. It demonstrates that responsibility went far beyond Enver, that the road to war was paved by the demands of a politically interested public, and that the Ottoman leadership sought the German alliance as the only way out of a web of international threats and domestic insecurities, opting for an escape whose catastrophic consequences for the empire and seismic impact on the Middle East are felt even today. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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