Lyster, Ian, ed. - Among the Ottomans~Diaries from Turkey in World War I

An understanding of the early Twentieth Century requires knowledge about the Ottoman Empire, one of history's oldest and largest empires. Both internal and external pressures erroded much of its power by 1900. The two diaries of Among the Ottomansare accounts of the last years of this erosion kept by by two generations of the Lyster family, the editor's grandmother living in Constantinople and his father living in the Dardanelles.

158pp. + chronology, illus., maps, indices