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New Publication: "The 'German Spirit' in the Ottoman and Turkish Army 1908-1938: A History of Military Knowledge Transfer"

Dissertation of the Munich Doctoral Student Gerhard Grüßhaber Published

02.05.2018

Dr. Gerhard Grüßhaber, Alumnus of the Graduate School, published his dissertation about "The 'German Spirit' in the Ottoman and Turkish Army 1908-1938: A History of Military Knowledge Transfer". The study focuses on the mutual transfer of military knowledge between the German and the Ottoman/Turkish army.

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The 290-page study focuses on the mutual transfer of military knowledge between the German and the Ottoman/Turkish army between the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the death of Atatürk in 1938. Whereas the Ottoman and, later, the Turkish army were the main beneficiaries of this selective appropriation, the German armed forces evaluated their (prospective) ally’s military experiences to a lesser extent. Through the analysis of archival and published sources as well as memoir literature, the study provides evidence for the impact of this exchange on both armies and on the Turkish civil society. Indeed, the officer corps from both countries were a small, yet influential group in the development of their nations.

Gerhard Grüßhaber: The "German Spirit" in the Ottoman and Turkish Army, 1908-1938. A history of military knowledge transfer. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018.

290 p.
Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-11-055289-8
eBook (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-11-055478-6
99,95 € / $114.99 / £91.00

Cover: © 2018 – De Gruyter Oldenbourg