Ataturk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the founding father of the Turkish Republic. He transformed it from a battle-scarred ruin into a regional power and is still hailed as a hero today.

Andrew Mango

Surely definitive ... I enjoyed every page and recommend this book highly -- Simon Sebag Montifiore, Mail on Sunday A fluent, thorough and enjoyable biography, which for comprehensiveness, balance and deftness of touch outclasses all the alternatives for the English reader -- Mark Mazower, New Statesman The best concise account I have ever seen of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The narrative is gripping. It does not merely present all the facts of Ataturk's career but paints a credible picture of the whole man -- Geoffrey Lewis The profundity of Mango's analysis and his empathy with the years of national regeneration lift Ataturk to a higher level of biography than any previous account -- Alan Palmer, Literary Review Takes its place at the top -- Norman Stone, Sunday Times