Strolling Through Istanbul in 1918

Book cover: Strolling Through Istanbul in 1918“Strolling through Istanbul in 1918. The war memories of the German private Georg Steinbach” is now available on MENAdoc in Open Access.

Volume 3 of the series Memoria published by the Orient-Institut Istanbul is written from the unusual perspective of a young man of a foreign army, who documents his perceptions of the everyday life in the alien metropolis.

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Ruben Gallé edited the diaries and letters of his great-grandfather. It is a unique personal testimony about Istanbul in the last year of the war.