Padenia Osmansky: е _ The Fall of the Ottoman Empire: The First World in the Middle East

V 1914 godu yevropeyskiye derzhavy neumolimo spolzali k voyne, zatyagivaya s soboy v voronku etogo razrushitel'nogo konflikta ves' Blizhniy Vostok. V svoyey knige Yudzhin Rogan predstavlyayet istoriyu Pervoy mirovoy voyny, raskryvaya posledstviya, k kotorym ona privela na Blizhnem Vostoke, i tu reshayushchuyu - no maloizvestnuyu u nas - rol', kotoruyu sygral v ney region. Izvestnyy britanskiy istorik zhivo i uvlekatel'no rasskazyvayet o politicheskikh intrigakh i voyennykh bataliyakh, razvernuvshikhsya na osmanskikh zemlyakh ot Gallipoliyskogo poluostrova do Aravii. V otlichiye ot okopnoy voyny na Zapadnom fronte, na Blizhnem Vostoke boyevyye deystviya nosili dinamichnyy i nepredskazuyemyy kharakter. Prezhde chem voyennaya fortuna povernulas' litsom k derzhavam Antanty, turki nanesli im sokrushitel'nyye porazheniya na Gallipoliyskom poluostrove, v Mesopotamii i Palestine. Poslevoyennoye uregulirovaniye privelo k razdelu Osmanskoy imperii i zalozhilo osnovu tekh neprimirimykh protivorechiy, kotoryye po sey den' razdirayut arabskiy mir. Eta kniga obyazatel'na k prochteniyu vsem, kto khochet ponyat' istoriyu Pervoy mirovoy voyny i phenomenon segodnyashnego Blizhnego Vostoka.