The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire\"s agonising war for survival. Beginning with Italy\"s invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the Empire was in a permanent state of emergency, with hardly a frontier not under direct threat....

At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20 million Russians had died. And by 1950, a third of the globe had embraced communism.The triumph of Communism sets a profound puzzle....

The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit....

\'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle\' Norman Stone The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big, previously unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power ? and the destruction of the British Empire ?...