Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War

Edward J. Erickson's standard English-language operational history of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, based on Ottoman archival data.

Erickson's 2001 volume examines the organisation, manpower and campaigns of the Ottoman Army between 1914 and 1918 on the basis of Ottoman general staff sources. It situates the final-year Ottoman drive into the Caucasus and the eastern front's force structures within the wider war effort. For this collection it serves as a key background work, placing the Army of Islam's 1918 operations in Azerbaijan within the Ottoman Army's overall military capacity and strategy.