A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War

by Leila Tarazi Fawaz

Book Overview

The Great War transformed the Middle East, bringing to an end four hundred years of Ottoman rule in Arab lands while giving rise to the Middle East as we know it today. A century later, the experiences of ordinary men and women during those calamitous years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of the civilians and soldiers who endured this cataclysmic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674735498
• ISBN13: 9780674735491
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"