The Marconi Officer - Berney R. J.

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.‎