{"title":"Books by Eugene Rogan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141999074","title":"The Fall of the Ottomans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*FULLY UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE\u003ci\u003e SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Truly essential' Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Rogan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East.  By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous predators waiting to finish it off.  Following the Ottoman decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers the British, French and Russians hatched a plan to finish the Ottomans off: an ambitious and unprecedented invasion of Gallipoli...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEugene Rogan's remarkable book recreates one of the most important but poorly understood fronts of the First World War.  Despite fighting back with great skill and ferocity against the Allied onslaught and humiliating the British both at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia (Iraq), the Ottomans were ultimately defeated, clearing the way for the making, for better or worse, of a new Middle East which has endured to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201500414130,"sku":"9780141999074","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141999074_8ae6dd67-66f3-4099-8178-e3d1e8d1fa56.jpg?v=1786011479"},{"product_id":"9781802063202","title":"The Damascus Events","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. The once mighty empire was under pressure from global economic change and European imperial expansion. Reforms in the mid-nineteenth century raised tensions across the empire, nowhere more so than in Damascus. A multifarious city linked by caravan trade to Baghdad, the Mediterranean and Mecca, the chaos of languages, customs and beliefs made Damascus a warily tolerant place. Until the reforms began to advantage the minority Christian community at the expense of the Muslim majority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in 1860 people who had generally lived side by side for generations became bitter enemies as news of civil war in Mount Lebanon arrived in the city. Under the threat of a French expeditionary force, the Ottomans dealt with the disaster effectively and ruthlessly - but the old, generally quite tolerant Damascene world lay in ruins. It would take a quarter of a century to restore stability and prosperity to the Syrian capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55205905334645,"sku":"9781802063202","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781802063202.jpg?v=1786026864"},{"product_id":"9780141986548","title":"The Arabs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding,  gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character sketches, witty  asides and magisterial scholarship, that explains much of what we need  to know about the world today' Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Anyone who seeks to understand why the Islamic world bears a grudge against the West should read The Arabs' Sir Alaistair Horne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power. Drawing on the writings and eyewitness accounts of those who lived through the tumultuous years of Arab history, \u003ci\u003eThe Arabs\u003c\/i\u003e balances different voices - politicians, intellectuals, students, men and women, poets and novelists, famous, infamous and the completely unknown - to give a rich, complex sense of life over nearly five centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRogan's book is remarkable for its geographical sweep, covering the Arab world from North Africa through the Arabian Peninsula, and for the depth in which it explores every facet of modern Arab history. Charting the evolution of Arab identity from Ottomanism to Arabism to Islamism, it covers themes including the conflict between national independence and foreign domination, the Arab-Israeli struggle and the peace process, Abdel Nasser and the rise of Arab Nationalism, the political and economic power of oil and the conflict between secular and Islamic values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis multilayered, fascinating and definitive work is the essential guide to understanding the history of the modern Arab world - and its future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224715932021,"sku":"9780141986548","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141986548_b78bc8f1-6ccc-4bce-8bbf-34c5ffebd9ca.jpg?v=1786011132"},{"product_id":"9781837310425","title":"The Arabs","description":"Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. 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