Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War By Huseyin (FRW) Kivrikoglu, Edward J. Erickson, Greenwood Publishing Group. Erickson, Edward J. (2001). Ordered to die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN9780313315169.. Listed below are total Ottoman casualties; they include some 50,000 losses in eastern Europe of which 25,000 were in Galicia, 20,000 in Romania, and a few thousand in Macedonia (p. 142).