This is a survey based on Ottoman and Turkish interpretations of how a nomadic society developed a professional military institution that would play a significant role in world history from 1300-1918. The book focuses the revolutions in military affairs and transformations that enabled the Ottomans to field an effective fighting machine.
Mesut Uyar a Graduate of Turkish Military Academy, is a career military officer. He is formerly lecuturer of international relations and curator of the archive and museum at the Turkish Military Academy. Lt. Col. Edward J. Erickson, US Army (retired) is a combat veteran of the first and second Gulf Wars. He has a PhD from the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the Ottoman Army during the early twentieth century.
This book fills a formerly blank space in the history of Eastern
Europe and the Near East.
*Reference & Research Book News*
…this account is written with intelligence, verve and a very deep
knowledge of Ottoman history. It is a book to which military
historians, as well as students of the Ottoman world, will surely
return to again and again.
*Cornucopia*
There has long been a need for a military history of the Ottomans
in Englishand Uyar (Turkish Military Academy) and Erickson (US
Marine Corps) provide a very complete one…nothing better in a
single volume.
*Choice*
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