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Summary: wonder new perspective of Turkish Republic
Review: Thank God, there is some new info on this country. For decades we had to depend on 50's and 60's informations to get a clear picture of creation of Turkey. I liked it a lot. A new window to America's closest ally that is so far away.
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Summary: The Great Whitewash Continues...
Review: This book leaves out so many significant events comprising the history of the emergence of modern Turkey, that one cannot but question the veracity of other facts in the book by ommission or commission.Any other scientific work which leaves out so many significant facts would be denounced by its peers, but not in this case.
Bernard Lewis is a clever and very subtle propagandist, oriented along American foreign policy hues, acquiescing a brutal middle eastern regime for geopolitical reasons.. I wouldn't buy this book since it is not scientifically authentic .
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Summary: Outdated
Review: This book was long considered the classic description of the recent history of Turkey. The author has a beautiful writing style, and the book is a pleasure to read. It is by now fairly outdated, however, and the more recent history of Turkey provides reason to question some of Lewis's assumptions. The book has largely been superseded by Erich Jan Zurcher's "A Modern History of Turkey", also available from Amazon, which can be seen as more reliable and covering issues which Lewis neglects. Professor Zurcher, of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, has written an appreciative but nonetheless insightful commentary of the Lewis book. Readers considering purchasing the Lewis book would do well to read this commentary beforehand.
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