Atatrk : the rebirth of a nation / Patrick Kinross.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 515-521.

PART ONE -- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- 1 Birth of a Macedonian -- 2 The Education of an Officer – 3 Service in the Field -- 4 The 'Young Turk' Revolution -- 5 The Counter-Revolution -- 6 The Maturing Staff Officer -- 7 The Tripolitanian War -- 8 The Balkan Wars -- 9 A Post in Sofia – 10 The First World War -- 11 The Gallipoli Landings -- 12 A Turkish Victory -- 13 The Eastern Fronts -- 14 A Visit to Germany -- 15 The Turkish Defeat -- 16 The Armistice -- 17 The Sultan Dissolves Parliament -- 18 The Partition of Turkey? -- 19 Plans for Resistance -- PART TWO -- THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE -- 20 The Start of the Struggle -- 21 The Erzurum Congress -- 22 The Sivas Congress -- 23 Fall of the Sultan's Government -- 24 Move to Angora -- 25 The Allies Raid Parliament -- 26 The Trek to Anatolia -- 27 Parliament in Angora -- 28 The Civil War -- 29 The Greek Invasion -- 30 The Turco-Russian Treaty -- 31 End of the Irregulars -- 32 The First Battle of Inönü -- 33 The London Conference -- 34 Fall of Eskishehir -- 35 The Battle of the Sakarya -- 36 The Turco-French Treaty -- 37 Support from the East -- 38 Preparations for Battle -- 39 Final Victory -- 40 The Burning of Smyrna -- 41 Crisis at Chanak -- 42 End of the Sultanate -- 43 Negotiations at Lausanne -- 44 Signature of the Treaty -- PART THREE -- THE RISE OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC -- 45 Proclamation of the Republic -- 46 Abolition of the Caliphate -- 47 The Progressive Party -- 48 The Kurdish Revolt -- 49 The Mosul Settlement -- 50 Revolution in Headgear -- 51 Emancipation of Women -- 52 Trials for Treason -- 53 Return to Istanbul -- 54 Reform of the Alphabet -- 55 Experiment in Democracy -- 56 Turkey's Place in the World -- 57 A New Language and History -- 58 Father of the Turks -- 59 A Serious Illness -- 60 Death of Atatürk

This important and absorbing biography will fill many gaps in our knowledge of the man who created modern Turkey and changed the course of European history. Until the outbreak of the first world war the Middle East, so confused today, was reasonably stable-held together, as it had been for five hundred years, by the Ottoman Empire of the Turks. But in the war their Empire was swept away, and the Middle East disintegrated. Today its most stable element is, curiously enough, Turkey itself, and for this one man alone is responsible: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. As a boy morose, rebellious, unpopular, he became a soldier, joined the secret revolutionary society of the Young Turks, and took part in overthrowing the corrupt regime of the Sultans. Their leader, Enver Pasha, proclaimed a Parlia-mentary Constitution. But Kemal dis-agreed with Enver's policy, especially his association with Germany; he concentra-ted on soldiering, and distinguished him-self by his brilliant tactics at Gallipoli. When the Allies carved up the Ottoman Empire Kemal rallied the remnants of the Turkish army and created a Turkish Republic, proclaiming himself President. His numerous reforms, radical, imagina-tive and genuinely democratic in intention, were dedicated to reviving, in new terms, the patriotic spirit of the Turkish people, and in a little over ten years he transformed his country into a strong, efficient and respected Westernised power. Atatürk The Rebirth of a Nation gives a consistently clear, fair and sympathetic portrait of this prototype of the military dictators who have become a familiar feature of cur world.