What is Turkey? Arnold Toynbee begins by surveying the lands marked Ottoman on the map, from Yemen and the Hejaz to Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Armenia and Anatolia, and asks what holds them together. He traces the rise of the Young Turks and their nationalism, condemns the destruction of the Armenians and considers what should become of its peoples after the war.
A short wartime argument by the future author of A Study of History, with the partisanship of 1917. Download the free EPUB.