By Daniel Allen Butler

The historical past of the Ottoman Empire spanned greater than seven centuries. on the peak of its strength, it stretched over 3 continents and produced marvels of structure, literature, technological know-how, and war. while it fell, its cave in redrew the map of the realm and altered the process background.

Shadow of the Sultan s Realm is the tale of the empire s dissolution in the course of a tumultuous interval that climaxed within the First international battle. In its telling are battles and campaigns that experience develop into the stuff of legend Gallipoli, Kut, Beersheeba waged via males who've turn into greater than lifestyles: Enver Bey, the would-be patriot who used to be pushed extra by means of ambition than through knowledge; T. E. Lawrence ( Lawrence of Arabia ), the enigmatic chief of an abnormal battle opposed to the Turks; Aaron Aaronsohn, the Jewish botanist-turned-spy who deceived his Turkish and British allies with equivalent facility; David Lloyd George, the best minister for whom strength intended every thing, integrity not anything; Mehmet Talaat, who gave the orders that started the Armenian massacres; Winston Churchill, who created an in depth plan for the Gallipoli crusade, which must have been the masterstroke of the good battle; Mustafa Kemal, a proficient soldier who could develop into a progressive flesh presser and earn the identify Ataturk; Arthur Balfour, the British overseas secretary who might promise something to a person; and Edmund Allenby, the final who failed within the trench war of the western entrance yet fought brilliantly in Palestine.

Daniel Allen Butler weaves the tales of the boys and the occasions that propelled them right into a compelling narrative of the dying of an empire. Its legacy is the cauldron of the trendy heart East.