Kemal Ataturk: A Biography

This is a German biography of Ataturk. The book was translated into English by Kenneth Kirkness. The book starts with an account of the Gallipoli Campaign, from Kemal's point of view. It then goes back to the closing stages of the Nineteenth Century, with Kemal's upbringing in Salonika. The period of the war takes up a very short part of the book, it then looks at Kemal's "rebel" days, and carries on with the story of the making of modern Turkey. The book (which appears to have no date) ends in the late Thirties. This book is written in a very narrative way. It is very accessible, and in fact, the whole book presents what might have been called a "rattling good tale". But it is a serious study of Ataturk and is a valuable addition to The Collection, to sit beside the other, more modern, biographies of Ataturk we have.