Introdution: The Sykes-Picot myth and the modern Middle East
Prologue: September 7, 1876
Part I: The sick man of Europe
Radical surgery: the young Turks
Part II: The War of 1914: Turkey plays its hand
Manna from Mars: the arrival of SMS Goeben
The battle for Ottoman belligerence
Basra, Sarıkamış, and Suez
Massacre in Turkish Armenia
A cold winter for the British Empire
Ottoman holy war and Arab revolt
Part III: Death and rebirth
Lausanne and the Ottoman legacy.