A Life Lived like a Storm: Enver Pasha and the End of the Ottoman World

The definitive biography of Enver Pasha, the larger-than-life Young Turk revolutionary who bent the arc of history and reshaped the modern Middle East and EurasiaEnver Pasha (1881-1922) is a hotly contested figure whose career spanned the Young Turk Revolution, the First World War, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the rise of global anti-colonialism.To millions he was an icon of hope and a folk hero. Others reviled him as a ruthless conspirator and a merciless sower of death.But all, from Kaiser Wilhelm II through Churchill to Stalin, found him a man of consequence.A Life Lived like a Storm tells the story of the man whom even a jealous rival, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, likened to the splendor of a setting sun. The first biography of Enver to make use of an abundance of archival sources in multiple languages, this book radically transforms our understanding of Enver and his era.A reserved, pious boy from the Balkans schooled to become an elite officer in the Ottoman army, he vaulted