Book description
With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came
the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the
creation of one man, the soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal, who dragged
his country from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and in
defeating Western imperialists inspired 'the cause of the East'. Lord
Kinross writes of the intrigues of empires, the brutalities of civil
war, personal courage - showing us Ataturk, the incarnation of glory -
as well as of Kemal's youthful ambition, and his problems with his wife.
Patrick Kinross was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, after which he
became a journalist. During World War II he was posted as intelligence
officer to the Middle East and later served as press counsellor at the
British Embassy in Cairo.
