A bilingual (Turkish/English) biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
by: Barbara K. Walker and Sema G. Kormali
ISBN: 0-86647-101-4
The facing page format, with English on the left and Turkish on the
right, is designed to make comparison easy for students of either
English or Turkish.
This biography is the first to treat the whole life of Ataturk. It gives
particular attention to his formative years, his childhood and early military
career, since this period is not as well known as his career as the great
reformer and founder of the modern Turkish state.
Research, which took over 25 years, included work in government
and family archives and extensive interviews with people who had
known Ataturk at all periods from childhood on.
34 rare photographs and portraits, several reproduced from the
originals.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk rose from a humble childhood to become one
of the most courageous and significant leaders of the 20th Century.
"Even though I was very familiar with the life of Ataturk, when I read To
Set Them Free, I realized that we (as Turks growing up in Turkey) never
learned about his childhood in a way that resonated with his
accomplishments in later years that were so important and shaped the
modern day Turkey that I grew up in."
A bilingual (Turkish/English) biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
by: Barbara K. Walker and Sema G. Kormali
ISBN: 0-86647-101-4
The facing page format, with English on the left and Turkish on the
right, is designed to make comparison easy for students of either
English or Turkish.
This biography is the first to treat the whole life of Ataturk. It gives
particular attention to his formative years, his childhood and early military
career, since this period is not as well known as his career as the great
reformer and founder of the modern Turkish state.
Research, which took over 25 years, included work in government
and family archives and extensive interviews with people who had
known Ataturk at all periods from childhood on.
34 rare photographs and portraits, several reproduced from the
originals.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk rose from a humble childhood to become one
of the most courageous and significant leaders of the 20th Century.
"Even though I was very familiar with the life of Ataturk, when I read To
Set Them Free, I realized that we (as Turks growing up in Turkey) never
learned about his childhood in a way that resonated with his
accomplishments in later years that were so important and shaped the
modern day Turkey that I grew up in."