TY - BOOK ID - 25126862 TI - The Ottoman road to war in 1914 PY - 2008 SN - 9780521880602 0521880602 9780511551987 9780521175258 0511551983 9780511465062 0511465068 0511464320 9780511464324 1107199506 0511736886 1281982482 9786611982485 0511462743 0511461992 0511463537 0521175259 9781107199507 9780511736889 9781281982483 6611982485 9780511462740 9780511461996 9780511463532 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - World history KW - anno 1910-1919 KW - Turkey KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - History KW - History, Military KW - Anatolia KW - Anatolie KW - Ānātūlī KW - Asia Minor KW - Asia Minore KW - Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Turk Uls KW - Buturuki KW - Cộng hoà Thỏ̂ Nhĩ Kỳ KW - Dēmokratia tēs Tourkias KW - Devlet-i Aliye Osmaniye KW - Durka KW - Durkka dásseváldi KW - Gweriniaeth Twrci KW - Jamhuri ya Uturuki KW - Jamhuuriyada Turki KW - Jumhūrīyah al-Turkīyah KW - Komara Tirkiyeyê KW - Lýðveldið Turkaland KW - Lýðveldið Tyrkland KW - Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìnira ilẹ̀ Túrkì KW - Osmanlı İmparatorluğu KW - Osmanskai︠a︡ Imperii︠a︡ KW - Ottoman Empire KW - Pobblaght ny Turkee KW - Poblacht na Tuirce KW - Repóbblica d'l Turchî KW - Repubbleche de Turchie KW - Repubblica di Turchia KW - Republic of Turkey KW - Republic of Türkiye KW - República da Turquia KW - Republica de Turchia KW - Republica de Turquía KW - Republica Turcia KW - Republiek Turkeye KW - Republiek Turkije KW - Republiek van Turkye KW - Republik bu Tirki KW - Republik Tierkei KW - Republik Turkäi KW - Republik Türkei KW - Républik Turki KW - Republik Turkia KW - Republika e Turqisë KW - Republika ng Turkiya KW - Repùblika Tërecczi KW - Republika Turcija KW - Republika Turcji KW - Republika Turcyje KW - Republika Turecko KW - Republika Turkiya KW - Republika Turkojska KW - Republika Turska KW - Republika Turt︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Republiḳah ha-Ṭurḳiyah KW - Republiken Turkiet KW - Republikken Tyrkia KW - Republikken Tyrkiet KW - République de Turquie KW - République turque KW - Repuvlika de Turkiya KW - Ripablik kya Buturuki KW - Ripoliku Turkiyakondre KW - T.C. 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Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the Ottomans enter the war because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams? Based on previously untapped Ottoman and European sources, Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic study challenges this consensus. It demonstrates that responsibility went far beyond Enver, that the road to war was paved by the demands of a politically interested public, and that the Ottoman leadership sought the German alliance as the only way out of a web of international threats and domestic insecurities, opting for an escape whose catastrophic consequences for the empire and seismic impact on the Middle East are felt even today. ER -