The Last Treaty by Michelle Tusan PAPERBACK 9781009371094

Name: The Last Treaty by Michelle Tusan PAPERBACK 9781009371094
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Last TreatyLausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East\nAuthor(s): Michelle Tusan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009371094, 978-1009371094\nSynopsis\nIn The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East and reassesses the military operations, humanitarian activities and diplomatic dealings that continued after the signing of Versailles in 1919. She shows how, on the Middle Eastern Front, Britain and France directed Allied war strategy against a resurgent Ottoman Empire to sustain an imperial system that favored Europe's dominance within the nascent international system. The p.