Notes
1. Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko, A Lifelong Passion, Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story (New York: Doubleday, 1997); Richard Milton, Best of Enemies, Britain and Germany: 100 Years of Truth and Lies (Cambridge, UK: Icon Books, 2007); Mark Mazower, Dark Continent, Europe’s Twentieth Century (New York: Vintage Books, 1998); Sean McMeekin, History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009); Agostino von Hassell and Sigrid MacRae with Simone Ameskasp, Alliance of Enemies (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008); Jennet Conant, The Irregulars, Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008).
2. Roderic H. Davison, “Ottoman Diplomacy and Its Legacy,” in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Diplomacy and Reforms (Istanbul: The ISIS Press, 1999), pp. 329–50.
3. Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923 (London: John Murray Publishers, 2005).
4. Roderic H. Davison, “Russian Skill and Turkish ‘Imbecility’: the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainardji Reconsidered,” Slavic Review, Vol. 35, No. 3 (1976), pp. 463–83; Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774–1923 (Austin: University of Texas, 1990), pp. 29–50.
5. Selim Deringil, Well Protected Domains, Ideology and Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909 (London: I.B. Tauris, 1998).