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Ataturk

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23rd June 2011

Price: £14.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781848546189

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This biography of Ataturk 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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Reviews

Mark Mazower, New Statesman
A fluent, thorough and enjoyable biography, which for comprehensiveness, balance and deftness of touch outclasses all the alternatives for the English reader
Alan Palmer, Literary Review
The profundity of Mango's analysis and his empathy with the years of national regeneration lift Ataturk to a higher level of biography than any previous account
Geoffrey Lewis
The best concise account I have ever seen of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The narrative is gripping. It does not merely present all the facts of Ataturk's career but paints a credible picture of the whole man
Simon Sebag Montifiore, Mail on Sunday
Surely definitive ... I enjoyed every page and recommend this book highly
Norman Stone, Sunday Times
Takes its place at the top