8vo. Volume I: Etude Stratégique et Critique sur la Campagne Turco-Russe de 1877-1878: viii, 213 pp., [1 errata], [1], 6 folding plans / Volume II: Critique Stratégique de la Campagne d’Asie Mineure 1877-1878: xiv, 274 pp., [1], 10 sketches in and hors text, 1 folding map, 6 folding plans, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, lightly rubbed at spine, fitted in cloth sleeve, marbled endpapers, small tear to end fly leaf of Volume I, front fly leaf of Volume II loose, otherwise set clean and in very good condition, Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot, Paris, 1900-1908.

Synopsis

Ahmed Izzet Pasha (1864 – 1937), known as Ahmet İzzet Furgaç after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934, was an Ottoman general of ethnic Albanian descent during World War I. He was also one of the last Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire (14 October 1918 – 8 November 1918) and its last Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ahmed Izzet Pasha’s decisions during the Caucasus Campaign have been criticized and regarded as one of the factors of its failure, while his subsequent high reputation in Turkey has been attributed to his successful activity during the Turkish War of Independence.