By the Light of a Candle
The Diaries of a Reserve Officer in the Ottoman Army - First World War Diaries and Other Records of the Period of 1915-1919
Published on 20. November 2010
Book
Hardback
365 pages
978-1-61719-864-9 (ISBN)
Description
Translation from Ottoman Turkish of the diaries of Ragip Nurettin Ege, a reserve officer in the Ottoman army during the First World War.
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Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Edward J. Erickson served in the regular United States Army for twenty-five years as a field artillery officer. His assignments included airborne, mechanized, and nuclear artillery units in Germany, Turkey, and the United States. He served in the Third Armoured Division at the Battle of Wadi Al Batin in 1991 and in the Fourth Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Colonel Erickson is a Turkish linguist and has several post-graduate degrees including a PhD from the University of Leeds. He is the author of four books and numerous articles about the Ottoman Army in the period 1908-1922. Colonel Erickson and his wife, Melanie, live in Norwich, New York where he teaches history.