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The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers' conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. This is a multidimensional account of the many seemingly discrete yet interlinked campaigns that resulted in one to one and a half million casualties.It details not just their military outcome but relates them to intelligence-gathering, industrial organisation, authoritarianism and the political economy of empires at war.

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1787380297
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Language: : English
ISBN-10 : 1787380297
ISBN-13 : 978-1787380295
Item Weight : 13 ounces
Dimensions : 8.5 x 1.14 x 5.47 inches

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S. Martin Shelton

It’s tedious. This text reads as if it were a ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2016

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This is a heavy book. Not in its weight but in its syntax. It’s tedious. This text reads as if it were a doctorial dissertation modified for publication. Here’s one example from page 15:

“For their part, the localised backlashes against the closer imposition of colonial control that emerged during the war and peaked between 1919 and 1922 were themselves interlinked through the cross-border exchange of ideas and inspiration.”

Egad! Say again? Over.

This book focuses on the political, economic, and logistics of the middle-east war. Ulrichsen mentions campaigns with short shift. Fortunately, he discusses the Gallipoli Campaign in slightly more depth. Nonetheless, for the military historian, this book is unsatisfactory. We are left wanting more detail. In particular, I fault the author for not providing detailed maps of the campaigns he mentions and discusses ever so lightly. He does have one overall map of the Middle East and that’s it. Totally unsatisfactory.

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An interesting and informative academic study

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2017

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This is an interesting and highly informative analysis of the WWI in the Middle East. Part of the book is based on the author’s doctorial thesis. The book is academic in the sense that it seeks to analyze WWI in the Middle East and how it has influenced the world since, rather than just providing exciting narrative stories of combat. It details parts of the war that are neglected in other books, such as the war in the Caucuses, Iraq and in Iran, as well as discussing the more well known fighting in Gallipoli and Palestine. This is not an easy read, but it is a rewarding one if you stick with it. The book contains two maps, but I would have liked to have had more, it has an index and bibliography, but no photographs.

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robin friedmanTop Contributor: Philosophy

The Great War in the Middle East

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2014

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Published on the centenary of the Great War, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen's study, "The First World War in the Middle East" (2014), offers a relatively rare perspective in thinking about WW I and presents important historical background to current events in the Middle East. It is well-researched and thoughtfully written on both counts. Individual events in the WW I Middle East have been studied extensively, but, as Ulrichsen points out, there have been no prior single-volume histories of the Middle Eastern theater in its entirety. Actions in the Middle East may not have impacted the ultimate result of the War, but Ulrichesen shows that they do not deserve to be considered, as is frequently the case, as a sideshow. Ulrichsen, the author of an earlier Middle East study, "Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era", is a research fellow in Public Policy at Rice University and an associate fellow on the Middle East North Africa Programme at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London.

Ulrichsen describes how WW I led at last to the end of the Ottoman Empire, which fought on the side of Germany, and to the creation of independent nation-states in the Middle East. The author writes: "[t]he entire political landscape of the region was reshaped as the legacy of the war sapped the ability of imperial 'outsiders' to dominate and influence events and nationalist groups succeeded in mobilising mass movements around distinctly national identities. Yet, this occurred just as the actual and potential value of Middle Eastern oil became a permanent feature of a new set of Western geostrategic considerations." The book examines critical war events in what became contemporary Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Israel; and it shows the continued legacy of military and political actions during the Great War.

The book is in three parts. In the opening part, Ulrich examines the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Germany as they stood prior to the outbreak of the War. He also offers an insightful overview of the fighting in the Middle East which emphasizes the backwardness of the region in terms of economic development and infrastructure and the difficult logistics involved in fighting a large-scale war on treacherous terrain far from a governmental base and from a secure source of supplies. Large-scale famine was an immediate result in many places of the Middle East conflict.

The central part of the book studies the military campaigns. From a military perspective, the most significant were the campaigns involving Russia and the Ottoman Empire early in the war which resulted in the bulk of the Ottoman Empire's casualties and diverted its soldiers and resources away from other theaters. Ulrichsen offers a good discussion of the disputed Armenian Massacre by the Ottoman Empire in the context of this early fighting.

The book describes the long fighting at Gallipoli which is the best-remembered part of the Middle East war and its impact on the growth of national identity in Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey. Further broad sections of the book examine the conflict in Egypt and in Gaza which led ultimately to Great Britain's capture of Jerusalem and to the Balfour Declaration. The book then discusses the war in Mesopotamia which led to its disastrous surrender of a garrison at Kut in 1916 prior to the taking of Baghdad. Ulrichsen's account of the Mesopotanian War shows eerie similarities to the American and British experience in the early 21st Century invasion of Iraq.

The final section of the book shows the complex political situation that resulted from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Western imperialism and Arab nationalism formed a volatile mix which set the stage for the continued instability of the Middle East.

The most glaring ommission of the book is the lack of maps which makes the military accounts difficult to follow for readers without an excellent prior knowledge of the region's geography. The two maps on the frontice-piece are crude and inadequate and include the embarassing misspelling of "Ottomon" Empire. The writing style of the book is frequently turgid. Regardless of these flaws, Ulrichsen has written an important and valuable book which explains WW I in the Middle East and its continued importance. I learned a great deal from this study. It will be of value to readers with an interest in the contemporary Middle East or in WW I.

Robin Friedman

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Carl O Schuster

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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015

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A new book on a fascinating element of WWI.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014

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interesting point of view.

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Janelle E. Bohrod

And then it would go into the French and the Germans and trench war and except for learning that a war of attrition was like in

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2014

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I haven't had enough time to really get into the book but when I find a little time things about WWI are starting to get through to me. I could never figure out what started the war as we were taught in school that it was all because Arch Duke Ferdinand was shot. And then it would go into the French and the Germans and trench war and except for learning that a war of attrition was like in those stinking mud holes (with intermittent 100+ shot per minute machine gun blasts and the ensuing slaughter), I still didn't have any idea wqhay what was going on, was going on. The First World War in The Middle East has begun to open my eyes to the fact that it had more to do with the French and the Germans (+the English and finally the Yanks). It, so far, seems to be a fight over empires and the colonialism by the European powers vs. Middle Eastern and lower African countries to assure raw products to the Colonial Masters in the West, not to mention handy armies to order around like the Indians by the English. I remember in my college years, opening up to see how much the South East Asian War was about our own colonialism we wished to take over from the French. Fortunately for WWII we had Hitler to make that war feel like it had so much more integrity than colonialism. With Japan the colonialism was easier to see. And, of course, when the Cold War got started, it was obvious that colonialism was what it was all about. Of course, we could could cloud our eyes that Godless Communism made our stance (to us at least) look again so godly and full of integrity...not that I would have chosen the Soviet ways over our own. But it seems to me now, that the fear of the big Capitalists losing out to the Communists was really what it was about. I think of how naieve we were, thinking we were fighting for God rather than fighting for the rich to get richer. These days, it certainly seems that way when so many fight so hard to keep the poor from the right to health care. Read this one!

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Niall

Four Stars

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Very interesting.

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He enjoyed it!

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Bought this for my brother for his birthday. Shipping did take a while. My brother said he really enjoyed the book

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Good overall coverage of the Middle East in World War One

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R. M. Lindsell

That was easy reading for someone quite familar with the scenario

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2014

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The publisher claimsd to be the first: Roger Ford Eden to Armageddon was published by W&N Orion in 2009. That was easy reading for someone quite familar with the scenario. Coates Ulirchsen's use of language is obtuse so that I can only manage a few pages at each attemp;after four days I am at p53.

I'll go on to the end, but it's a book not worth the ffort.:

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