`There are many histories of World War One; few are as important or as readable as this one`   -Walter Russell Mead

`Masterful and sympathetic...superb  -Charles King, Literary Rewiew

`A marvellous exposition of the historian`s art` - Christopher de Bellaigue ,Guardian

`This readable, much-praised and opinionated work chronicles the Ottomans` entry into the war on Germany`s side, its eventual defeat and its final dismemberment   -Gerard Russell, The Times

`It is an enormous story, and McMeekin is a worthy chronicler of it ... The Ottoman Endgame is the most satisfactory and thought-through of the recent books on the subject that I have seen`   -Norman Stone, Prospect

`Original and passionately written`  -Economist