This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first president of the new republic in 1923. He imposed coherence, order and mordernity and in the process, created his own legend and his own cult.这本关于阿塔图尔克的传记旨在剥去神话的外衣，展现这个人的复杂性。1881年，他出生于奥斯曼帝国萨洛尼卡的穆斯塔法平原，受训成为一名军官，但直到1919年他带头挫败了胜利的盟军瓜分奥斯曼帝国土耳其核心地区的计划，他才真正为人所知。他分裂了协约国，打败了最后一个苏丹，并确保了土耳其民族国家的领土，在1923年成为新共和国的第一任总统。他将连贯性、秩序和现代性强加于人，并在此过程中创造了自己的传奇和自己的崇拜。