World War II Turkey Volume 1

World War II, as a truly all-out war, turned the whole world and every aspect of life upside down. In the first volume of their works that analyze how this tremendous upheaval took place in Turkey, İlhan Tekeli and Selim İlkin discuss the military side of the issue. In this volume, not only Turkey's diplomatic actions against the threat of war, its military preparations and how the entire economy is affected by this war environment are examined in extraordinary detail. The book is also an extremely comprehensive history of the Second World War in general. An analysis that covers all fronts of the Second World War, from the Nazi Blitz to the Battle of Stalingrad, from the battles in the Pacific to the Normandy landings...

"Turkey (...) predicted the intentions of other actors of the war, developed cooperation with them, changed their calculations and influenced their decisions with the decisions it took regarding its own armed forces. On the other hand, the power it created with the military measures it took in order to become an active actor that was taken into account also greatly affected its economy." (...) Turkey managed to become one of the effective actors of the Second World War without entering into a hot conflict, was protected from destruction, but experienced all the difficulties of a war economy and the social problems that these difficulties brought."
-İlhan Tekeli and Selim İlkin-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 669

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2013

Language Turkish