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Şu Çılgın Türkler (2005)

by Turgut Özakman(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

975220127X (ISBN13: 9789752201279)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bilgi Yayınevi

review 1: Herkes istdiğini düşünmekte özgürdür fakat onca kaynağa dayalı ve onca yıllık emekle hazırlanmış bu eseri aşağılamak çok çirkin bir davranış! Bu kitabı baştan sona hem milli hem dini hem de insanlık duygularım kabararak okudum! Yurtseverlik ve milli bilince sahip olmak ne zamandan beri ve kime göre salaklık ya da şovenizm oldu. Kitap hakkında başkaları ne düşünürse düşünsün ne derse desin bana göre, dünyanin en güzel, en kahraman ve en onurlu çılgınlarına ait muhteşem bir destan okudum. Beğenmeyen varsa otursun kendi kitabını yazsın! Ama ne yazarsa yazsın bu kitabın sonu hep aynı bitmeyecek mi??Sonunda "geldikleri gibi gitmediler mi"?!
review 2: Many books about this great war have been written in Turkey but... more none of them was able to attract as many readers as this one did. The way the author told the story was not like a history book but rather like a regular novel. Although the author has a degree in law, he dedicated a good part of his life (He was born in 1930) to do research about Turkish War of Independence. He gave proper references for all the information he provided in his book. The book itself is almost 750 pages and notes and references to the book make another 150 pages. The majority of Turkish readers liked/loved his book but he has also received a lot of criticism for the way he told about the traitors of the war. He has even been sued for giving misleading information about the facts of the war. Thanks to his strong reference list, which included references to Ottoman Empire archives, he has not only won all his cases but also the respect of millions in Turkey. He has written two more history books: One about one of the biggest wars of World War I, the War of Dardanelles (1915) and another one about the first years of the Turkish Republic (post-1923 period). Both are on my to-be-read list.Although it is a quite long story, I was able to finish this book off in a few days. I remember myself reading bits of it in various spots at any time of the day. It was a pretty busy period of work but I spent three consecutive lunch breaks in a week reading. The way he told about the facts of the war was so impressive that I became really emotional when I was reading it and I was not able to watch/read any news about Turkish Army or soldiers. By the way, I work in a defense company so it was a quite hard thing to do! less

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