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Ataturk by Patrick Kinross

This famous biography about kemal ataturk was very helpful for being a less familiar perspective on the 1910s-30s, and kept me engrossed and interested 90% of the time, despite being written 60 years ago about a country of which I was wholly ignorant. 

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