The Turkish War of Independence

A Military History, 1919–1923

Edward J. Erickson (Marine Corps University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
25 July 2024

Military history; Military tactics

The dramatic story of the turbulent birth of modern Turkey, which rose out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire to fight off Allied occupiers, Greek invaders, and internal ethnic groups to proclaim a new republic under Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk).

It is exceedingly rare to run across a major historical event that has no comprehensive English-language history, but such was the case until The Turkish War of Independence brought together all the main strands of the story, including the chaotic ending of World War I in Asia Minor and the numerous military fronts on which the Turks defied odds, fighting off several armies to create their own state from the defeated ashes of the Ottoman Empire.

This important book culminates Erickson's three-part series on the early 20th-century military history of the Ottomans and Turkey. Making wide use of specialized, hard-to-find Western and Turkish memoirs and military sources, it presents a narrative of the fighting, which eventually brought the Turkish Nationalist armies to victory. Often termed the ""Greco-Turkish War,"" an incomplete description that misses its geographic and multinational scope, this war pitted Greek, Armenian, French, British, Italian, and insurgent forces against the Nationalists; the narrative shows these conflicts to have been distinct and separate to Turkey's opponents, while the Turkish side saw them as an interconnected whole.

By: Edward J. Erickson (Marine Corps University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9798765130124
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 25 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE The End of World War I TWO Call to Arms THREE To the First Inönü Campaign FOUR The Long War against Insurgents FIVE A Short War on the Eastern Front SIX The Franco-Turkish War SEVEN Second Inönü and Kütahya-Eskisehir EIGHT The Culminating Point at Sakarya NINE Operational and Strategic Pause TEN The Great Offensive and the Pursuit to Izmir ELEVEN The Advance to the Straits and the Armistice TWELVE The Treaty of Lausanne and the Establishment of the Turkish Republic Conclusion Appendix A: Casualties by Professor Konstantinos Travlos Appendix B: Campaigns of the Turkish War of Independence Bibliography Index

Edward J. Erickson is professor of international relations at Antalya Bilim University; retired professor of military history from the Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA; and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who qualified as a foreign area officer specializing in Turkey.