Ali A.

The sick man of Europe finally succumbs

According to Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the Ottomans, the collapse of the millennium-old empire triggered most of the problems that plague the Middle East today

  • The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920

    Eugene Rogan

    Allen Lane, pp. 485

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