I've just started reading David Fromkin's "A Peace to end all Peace", which covers the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East - with all the attendant joy that came with that :/ It's very readable, and even though I've just started, I really feel like I've gotten new information: Fromkin's description of what happened after the Goeben and Beslau entered Ottoman waters in August of 1914 is very different from what I read in Barbara Tuchman's book. This promises to be an eye opening read.