'Thrilling, superb, and colourful . . . Filled with flamboyant characters, impeccable scholarship that illuminates the neglected Near Eastern theatre of WWI and revelatory analysis that explains the modern Mideast, The Fall of the Ottomans is truly essential but also truly exciting reading.' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'This timely and important work restores the Middle East to its rightful place in the history of the Great War.' Margaret MacMillan, author of The War That Ended Peace

'Gripping . . . this is an extraordinary tale and Rogan recounts it well.' Bruce Clark, The New York Times Book Review

'An excellent historian.' Max Hastings, Sunday Times

'A timely history of the Ottoman war that, refreshingly, places Turks, Arabs and the Armenian genocide at its centre.' Christopher de Bellaigue, Guardian

'Masterly, meticulously researched, panoramic and engrossing . . . a historian of the first rank.' Ali A. Allawi,Spectator