Memories from the Middle East 1917-1918. Comp. Baumgart V., Mirzekhanov V.S., Lannik L.V.

The history of the First World War is infinitely complex and confused, therefore, many of its facts and circumstances are still unknown even to leading specialists. The memoirs of the officer of the German General Staff Ernst Parakvin (Paraken), who were previously not published either in the original or in translation, is a valuable certificate of events in the Middle East and Transcaucasia, as well as the last months of the Ottoman Empire and the tragic pages of national-state spread after the collapse of the Power of the Romanovs. Memories cover 1917-1918-the time of Parakvin’s participation in military campaigns in Mesopotamia and the Caucasus. The author of memoirs, who paid for his promising career for condemning the murders of Armenians in Baku in September 1918, comprehends the dramatic political processes that unfolded on the peripheral sites of the World War I.