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With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the creation of one man, the soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal, who dragged his country from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and in defeating Western imperialists inspired 'the cause of the East'. Lord Kinross writes of the intrigues of empires, the brutalities of civil war, personal courage - showing us Atatürk, the incarnation of glory - as well as of Kemal's youthful ambition, and his problems with his wife.
Lord Kinross's authoritative work remains the definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.
'Lord Kinross has given us a life-size portrait of a man. His
book is a splendid culmination of his long interest in Turkey.
He has utilised great masses of published and unpublished
sources, including documents in the Presidential Archives in
Ankara, and has filled in the gaps by interviewing many of
Ataturk's contemporaries...This is a long book but an
absorbing one, full of life and incident and colour,
worthy of its theme.'
Geoffrey Lewis, Observer

With the colapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the creation of one man, the soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal, who dragged his country from the middle ages to the twentieth century, and in defeating Western imperialists inspired "the cause of the east". (Arka Kapak'tan)