Mount of Olives

The book is a living testimony by the Turkish writer Falih Rıfkı Atay to the last days of the Ottomans on the Syrian-Palestinian front during World War I, during his service as an aide-de-camp to Djemal Pasha, the front commander and one of the three leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress. Through his memoirs, the writer covers the most important events of that period and Djemal Pasha's attempts to preserve this region within Ottoman territory. In addition to the memoirs of an Ottoman officer during the first Suez Canal expedition in 1914, and the desert wars and attacks on Gaza. “Our youth must read the book Mount of Olives, which tells about the final periods of the Ottoman Empire.”

• Category: History Books

• Number of pages: 160 pages