Ataturk

 

Austin Bay

"Lively...poignant...Bay's short, crisp, and readable book ably surveys Ataturk's military career."--"New Criterion"

"A timely new biography . . . [a] fascinating book." -- Clifford May, "The National Review"

"Bay makes the case that the father of Turkish democracy was also a military genius." --""MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History""

"In a changing world there is always something new to say about the authors of change throughout history. Austin Bay has widened our understanding of Mustafa Kemal, the general who founded and shaped the Turkish Republic, by showing convincingly that the choices made by Ataturk validate and are in turn validated by modern military doctrine. This is one reason for recommending his succinct account of Ataturk's life and achievements. His book justifies Ataturk's inclusion in the series of the world's great military leaders."--Andrew Mango, author of "Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey"

"This book is a clear, concise and fast-paced account of Ataturk's military triumphs and rise to power. It brings him vividly to life and highlights the qualities that allowed him to become the most successful revolutionary of the 20th century."--Stephen Kinzer, author of "Crescent and Star" and "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future"

"Military historian, columnist, and veteran Austin Bay in concise fashion explains the inexplicable of how modern Turkey, Phoenix-like, suddenly rose amid the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, with its friends defeated and impotent, its enemies multifold and ascendant--through the extraordinary army career of Kemal Ataturk. Bay's sympathetic military biography is as original as it is now timely, given that Ataturk's singular achievement stands in stark contrast to the current climate of rising Islamist dominance in a once secular Turkey."--Victor Davis Hanson, author of "Carnage and Culture" and "The Father of Us All"

"""This is the first genuine military biography of M. Kemal Atat