Was a bestselling hardback and was reprinted three times in Phoenix Giant paperback The definitive work by an expert in his field 'Lord Kinross has given us a life-size portrait of a man. His book is a splendid culmination of his long interest in Turkey. He has utilised great masses of published and unpublished sources, including documents in the Presidential Archives in Ankara, and has filled in the gaps by interviewing many of Ataturk's contemporaries...This is a long book but an absorbing one, full of life and incident and colour, and worthy of its theme' Geoffrey Lewis, The Observer
Patrick Kinross was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, after which he became a journalist. During World War II he was posted as intelligence officer to the Middle East and later served as press counsellor at the British Embassy in Cairo.
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