The Marconi Officer: Book One Island Made - Paperback

by R. J. Berney (Author)

The tale unfolds amidst tumultuous events, the drama, trauma and terror of the twentieth century. Avalanches of political, social and territorial change combine to spawn a plethora of war: foremost the contraction and demise of the Ottoman Empire with ancient nations reborn and the rise of The Young Turks who divide between democracy and dictatorship - the latter to seize power and destroy the social democratic reform of the Ottoman Empire initiated in 1908 by the restitution of the long abrogated 1876 constitution which granted equal social and political rights to all Ottoman subjects regardless of race and religion through the election of their own representatives to the parliament. With the demise and sabotage of the parliament numerous Ottoman subject peoples rebelled which in turn caused the Balkan Wars, and further leading to two World Wars.

Genocidal slaughter and terror with pillage and plunder of private property on an unprecedented scale ensues under the Young Turk dictatorship: the foundation of the Kemalist regime ruling class in the republic to come. Rabid nationalism rears its ugly head across Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, wider Asia and the Middle East, spawning virulent Fascism thus spurring the Holocaust. Totalitarian ideology and corrupted Marxism strive for world dominion, sciences advance as brilliant minds uncover and explain the subconscious: a concertina of catastrophe and enlightenment, instrumental in determining and steering the fate and fortune of swathes of human kind, not least the central characters in the Marconi Officer.