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FIVEYEARS IN TURKEY(with 3 fold-out b/w maps)

FIVE YEARS IN TURKEY by General Otto Liman von Sanders.

Hardcover, green cloth with beautiful Gilt Stamped Cover(issued without a dustjacket). 326 pages, 3 plates, several sketch maps in the text and three maps printed on both sides of a single sheet, folded in the pocket inside back cover. Fine condition. Recent limited reprint from thevery scarce1928, 1st edition.

Author\'s memoirs of five years spent in Turkey during WWI. A comprehensive account from a turbulent period in Ottoman Turkey. General von Sanders was appointed Chief of the German Military Mission to Turkey in 1913. He held this post until 1918.. As Inspector General of all Turkish forces, von Sanders worked diligently to bring Turkey into the war on the side of Germany. In addition to his advisory duties, he was appointed commander of the Turkish First Army and later with the new Fifth Army on the Gallipoli front. Later in the war he was appointed commander of Army Group F in Syria.. Denied the needed supplies & reinforcements, he failed to stop British General Sir Edmund Allenby\'s troops from driving through Palestine He retired from the German Army in 1919 and died in 1929.Otto Liman von Sanders (1855 - 1929) will always be associated with the Dardanelles campaign in which he commanded the Turkish Fifth Army, the army that defended Gallipoli, defeated the allied invasion and, after a campaign lasting some eight months (April-December 1915) forced the Allies to give up and withdraw. He was a cavalry officer who was commanding the German 22nd Division in Cassel when, in June 1913, he was offered the post of Chief of a German Military Mission in Turkey: he accepted and took up his post in December of that year and took over command of the Turkish First Army Corps, in Constantinople. Three months later, March 1914, he was given command of the Turkish Fifth Army defending Gallipoli and as such his version of events is of considerable interest to the history of that campaign. He later (1918) commanded the combined Turkish/German Yilderim force in Palestine where he was defeated by the greatly superior forces of Allenby. This account is based on notes written up in Malta where he was detained for some six months in 1919 before being permitted to return to Germany.

General Liman von Sanders, the head of the German Military Mission to Turkey – once wrote that (I did not check if it is in this book) \"the Turkish government is misleading our government in Berlin in terms of the case of the Armenians.\" He also threatened to resign over an order to deport virtually all Greeks from the Ottoman coast. Later on in 1921 General Liman von Sanders testified for the defense in the case of Soghoman Tehlirian: - \"In my opinion, we should divide into two categories the events which have taken place in Armenia, generally referred to as \"The Armenian Massacres.\" First, in my opinion, is the order of the Young Turks to deport the Armenians. We can hold the government fully responsible for the preparation of this deportation and partially responsible for all the subsequent events. For example, I once received an order to remove all Jews and Armenians from German officers\' staff\" - the orders I received were generally signed by Enver Pasha.\"

This is a remarkably informative book filled with author\'s firsthand experiences. This book is part of highly collectible field of Ottoman Empire.