The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East - by Eugene Rogan

Rogan recounts World War I's devastating impact on the Ottoman Empire, from the 1914-1915 Gallipoli campaign and Arab Revolt to the 1918 armistice and genocides like the Armenian tragedy. Rogan integrates Ottoman, Arab, British, and Turkish viewpoints through diaries and dispatches, illustrating how the war's chaos redrew the Middle East, birthing modern nation-states amid famine, betrayal, and imperial intrigue.