A Land of Aching Hearts is an absorbing, insightful account of life during World War I in the Middle East. The book’s first chapter gives an introduction to the enormous changes experienced by the Ottoman peoples during the nineteenth century. The second chapter presents an astute chronological overview of the war’s most important military and political events, beginning with the German–Ottoman alliance and the Ottoman Empire’s decision to enter the war in 1914. The subsequent chapters break new methodological ground, offering empire-wide perspectives on understudied but crucial aspects of the war—civilian plight and blight, soldiers’ everyday lives, smuggling, entertainment, prostitution, the lack of communication between the front and the home front, intelligence gathering and spying, and instances of torture. Although the book’s geographical emphasis tends to drift toward Syria, Fawaz provides much analysis of events in Anatolia, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, beyond the Ottoman...
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November 01 2015
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. By Leila Tarazi Fawaz (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2015) 384 pp. $35.00
Mustafa Aksakal
Online Issn: 1530-9169
Print Issn: 0022-1953
© 2015 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2015
MIT Press
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2015) 46 (3): 475–476.
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Mustafa Aksakal; A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. By Leila Tarazi Fawaz (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2015) 384 pp. $35.00. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2015; 46 (3): 475–476. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH_r_00897
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