ENGLISH

Ataturk

By Andrew Mango

Book information

Publisher
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Year
2004
ISBN
0719565928, 9780719565922
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1544606 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
688\0
Time added
2013-12-15 20:35:59

Description

This biography of Atat?rk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first president of the new republic in 1923. He imposed coherence, order and mordernity and in the process, created his own legend and his own cult.

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