About the book: 2016 / The history of the Russian-Turkish confrontation has long roots. The new book by A. V. Oleinikov tells about the events of the Russian-Turkish conflict during the First World War. The predatory attack of the Ottoman Empire on the Russian Black Sea coast on October 29, 1914 was the beginning of the last Russian-Turkish war. On this day, Turkish ships, without declaring war, fired at the cities of Sevastopol and Odessa, and the next day at Novorossiysk. So Russia had a new front of the First World War - the Caucasus. Read about the battles and events on this front in this book..