A well-off family's decline into poverty takes place against the backdrop of the last days of the Ottoman Empire. This powerful anti-war book tells the 'other side' of the Gallipoli story. It describes how ordinary people closed the door on the Ottoman Empire to embrace the new Republic – and what they lost along the way.
First published in 1950, the afterword to this edition is by Ates Orga, Orga's son.
