Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Atatrk's Vision

by Arnold Reisman

This book chronicles the story of a group of individuals caught at a crossroads and targeted in the cross fires of history. In 1933 events in their native Germanic lands presented them with a "Hobson's choice"-leave if you can or die Their lives were saved because Turkey was discarding the society and culture inherited from the Ottomans' derelict and shattered empire while recognizing and addressing the need to modernize its society, culture, way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977790886
• ISBN13: 9780977790883
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: New Academia Publishing/ The Spring
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"