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I've been meaning to review this book since I read it. Happened across it today, and it is something people might want to know about as they are reading for the centennial.

Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East, by Roger Ford, published in 2010.
This is the most comprehensive single volume work I have read on the First World War in the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire in general. Lawrence of Arabia and Gallipoli get good coverage in other works, the Palestine campaign a bit, but not much is written about the rest of the campaigns of the Ottoman armies and their various enemies. The book is divided into five parts: I Mesopotamia, II The Caucasus, Armenia, Anatolia and Persia, III The Dardanelles and Gallipoli, IV Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and V Aftermath and Conclusions. The format makes for separate but intertwined stories as each theater is dealt with from start to finish, instead of attempting to tell the whole story chronologically.

The book is not light reading sometimes. I had to put it down more than once and come back to it later. The section on Mesopotamia bogs down a bit in trying to follow all the troop movements, but stick with it, there are rewards later. It provides the most detailed account of the Mesopotamia mess I have seen, as well as the most information I have come across on the campaigns between the Russians and the Turks in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia. That last by itself makes the book a must read for the World War One student who has not seen much on the subject. Then there are the activities in Persia on which I had seen virtually nothing previously.

It would have been preferable had I not waited a few years after reading the book to write about it, but, if you are interested in the subject, both as it deals with the Great War, and as it laid the foundations for what has come in that area in the century since, this book is well worth your time.

John

http://www.amazon.com/Eden-Armagedd...1423434259&sr=1-1&keywords=eden+to+armageddon
 
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