Sea of Troubles Spring26 usually as the Allied forces

usually as the Allied forces reached the intended dropping zones before the airborne forces could take off

‘Hugely impressive’ NEW EUROPEAN ‘Novels like this might help light the way’ GUARDIAN 'At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile' ECONOMIST

Rosie Marks

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Sea of Troubles Spring26 usually as the Allied forcesIn the mid eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, and its territories occupied by European powers. Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa over three