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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 Abernathy David This book is the linchpinAn astonishing retelling of twentieth century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, is World War I a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the "wars of the Ottoman