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Cargando... Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkeypor Andrew Mango
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Ӕ A well-written and informative book. This biography is a requisite for english readers who wants to know more about modern Turkey. However, i could not give it a perfect 5 stars because I felt that the period during which Ataturk ruled Turkey as its first president ( a period spanning 15 years) was not discussed in detail, and was rushed towards the end of the book. With so many things happening in Turkey and the world during the interwar period, I wonder why the author consigned its discussion to a small portion of the book. Nevertheless, I still highly recommend the book, especially because it included excellent maps and pictures that made it even more interesting and easier to read.
The author, Istanbul-born and a writer on things Turkish, has produced far and away the best biography of Atatürk in English, one boasting solid research, fine presentation, and sensible judgments. The result is a more textured and complex picture than hitherto available. Mango skillfully captures the themes of his tale. "Atatürk was a competent commander, a shrewd politician, a statesman of supreme realism. But above all he was a man of the Enlightenment. And the Enlightenment was not made by saints."
Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas. Wikipedia en inglés (19)This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founding father of the Turkish Republic, was born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881. Trained as an army officer, he was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, worsted the last Sultan and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first president of the new republic in 1923, transforming it from a battle-scarred ruin into a regional power, and fast creating his own legend and his own cult. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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