Table of Contents
A Note on Dates, Nantes, Translation, and Transliteration xv
List of Maps xvii
Introduction: The Sykes-Picot Myth and the Modern Middle East xix
Prologue September 7, 1876 1
Part I The Sick Man of Europe
Chapter 1 The Sick Patient 9
Chapter 2 Radical Surgery: The Young Turks 33
Chapter 3 The Jackals Pounce 59
Chapter 4 Searching for an Ally 83
Part II The War of 1914: Turkey Plays Its Hand
Chapter 5 Manna from Mars: The Arrival of SMS Goeben 95
Chapter 6 The Battle for Ottoman Belligerence 113
Chapter 7 Basra, Sankamis, and Suez 135
Chapter 8 Dardanelles 163
Chapter 9 Gallipoli 199
Chapter 10 Massacre in Turkish Armenia 223
Chapter 11 A Cold Winter for the British Empire 247
Chapter 12 Erzurum and Kut 271
Chapter 13 Double Bluff: Ottoman Holy War and Arab Revolt 295
Chapter 14 Russia's Moment 315
Chapter 15 Turning the Arabs 341
Chapter 16 Brest-Litovsk: The Poisoned Chalice 365
Part III Death and Rebirth
Chapter 17 Mudros 393
Chapter 18 Sèvres 413
Chapter 19 Sakarya 439
Chapter 20 Smyrna 459
Epilogue Lausanne and the Ottoman Legacy 483
Acknowledgments 497
Notes 501
Bibliography 527
Index 537