New book: Kurdistan during the Firs

[mchyet at library.berkeley.edu]

From: mchyet at library.berkeley.edu
Subject: New book: Kurdistan during the First World War

This book can be helpful in providing background for an understanding of current
events in Kurdistan. MLC


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Subject: New book: Kurdistan during the First World War
Author:  Michael Chyet at UCBLIB_LSO2
Date:    3/21/95 9:24 AM


Dear friends:
        I am happy to announce the appearance in English of an important book:

Kamal Madhar Ahmad. KURDISTAN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, translated by Ali 
Maher Ibrahim, with a foreword by Akram Jaff (London : Saqi Books, 1994), 234 p.
ISBN 0 86356 084 9

>From the dust jacket:
        The author shows how, before and during the First World War, the 
political manoeuvring of the Allied powers, particularly Britain, concentrated 
on securing easy access to the region's oilfields and thus ignored the rights of
the Kurds.  The role and involvement of Germany and Russia are also discussed in
detail.
        Of major importance are the chapters examining the role of the Kurds in 
the Armenian massacres.  In his dispassionate analysis of this sensitive issue, 
the author sheds new lights on the involvement of the Kurds in the tragedy of 
the Armenian people under Ottoman rule.

        The Kurdish historian Kamal Madhar Ahmad received his academic training 
in Russia, and was until recently Professor of History at Baghdad University.  
He has published several books on the history of the Kurds and other historical 
events in the region.

Table of contents:

Foreword
Introduction
1. Early Designs
2. On the Verge of War
3. In the Thick of Battle
4. Struggle and Casualties
5. The Kurds and the Armenian Bloodshed 
6. Claims Take Shape
Conclusion
Index

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