The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914 - 1920

This is an interesting book: Rogan describes a theatre of war that proved as remorseless as any other. The book is written from the perspective of a global war with a true Middle East emphasis. It is written in a "lively, narrative style" (Anthony Sattin, reviewing in The Spectator) - this is a good description. But from the point of view of the Collection, where the Middle East is one of its most important areas for increasing coverage,. this is a brilliant book because it centres on the Ottoman Empire, which of course was basically almost the whole of the Middle East then. So it is especially useful for any student looking at what happened in that region during and immediately after the war and how what happened there has had consequences in todays Middle East.