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Friday, 31 January 2014

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Waterstones has a special '20% off almost everything' sale this weekend, and as I was passing their Bluewater branch I decided to see if there was a book or two that I fancied buying.

The store has a carousel display of books published by Osprey, and I happened to see that they had a copy of the ‘Command’ series book about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on sale. (It was written by Edward J Erickson, illustrated by Adam Hook, and published by Osprey in 2013 [ISBN 978 1 78096 590 1].) As Mustafa Kemal Atatürk has always been one of those late nineteenth/early twentieth century personalities that I have wanted to know more about, I bought it.


The book has eight chapters, a bibliography, and an index. The chapters are entitled:
  • Introduction
  • The early years
  • The military life
  • The hour of destiny
  • Opposing commanders
  • Inside the mind
  • When war is done
  • A life in words
A quick glance through the book indicates that it covers everything that I need in order to get some basic understanding of the man who was the ‘Father of the Turks’.
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4 comments:

  1. GonsalvoSaturday, February 01, 2014 1:57:00 am

    Probably a man most of us would do well to know more about!

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  2. Robert (Bob) CorderySaturday, February 01, 2014 8:45:00 am

    Gonsalvo,

    Very true. I am told that you cannot understand modern Turkey without understanding something about Atatürk. The two are inexorably intertwinned

    All the best,

    Bob

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  3. David CrookSaturday, February 01, 2014 4:39:00 pm

    Hi Bob,

    The author is a noted expert on the Ottoman Military and his book Defeat In Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkan War is a real gem. I have a copy of the biography of Ataturk by Andrew Mange and that is a very good account of his life.

    I have seen the Osprey title and it is on my 'to get' list - along with the volume on Lawrence.

    All the best,

    DC

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  4. Robert (Bob) CorderySaturday, February 01, 2014 5:35:00 pm

    David Crook,

    The author's biography inside the cover of the book was quite impressive, and it sounds as if Osprey couldn't have found a better expert to write this book.

    All the best,

    Bob

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