The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 /
McMeekin, Sean,
The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 / Sean McMeekin. - Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
THE VISION -- The Kaiser, the Baron and the Dragoman -- Berlin to Baghdad -- Young Turks and Old Caliphs -- THE PROPHET ARMED -- A Gift from Mars: German Holy War Fever -- The War for the Porte -- The First Global Jihad: Death to Infidels Everywhere! (Unless they be Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Americans or -possibly - Italians) -- ADVENTURES IN GERMAN JIHAD -- Parting the Red Sea -- An Austrian in Arabia -- Showdown at the Suez Canal -- Gallipoli: From Disaster to Triumph -- The Blood of the Prophet -- The Shia Stratagem -- To the Gates of India -- BOOMERANG -- Trouble on the Baghdad Railway -- The Reluctant Mahdi -- Iranian Implosion -- Betrayal in Mecca -- The Holy War Devours its Children -- Consolation Prize? The Race for Baku. I. 1. 2. 3. II. 4. 5. 6. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. IV. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
9781846143236
World War, 1914-1918--Turkey.
World War, 1914-1918--Islamic countries.
Jihad.
Geopolitics--History.--Germany
Germany--Foreign relations
Germany--Foreign relations--Turkey.
Turkey--Foreign relations--Germany.
900 / MCM/B
The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 / Sean McMeekin. - Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
THE VISION -- The Kaiser, the Baron and the Dragoman -- Berlin to Baghdad -- Young Turks and Old Caliphs -- THE PROPHET ARMED -- A Gift from Mars: German Holy War Fever -- The War for the Porte -- The First Global Jihad: Death to Infidels Everywhere! (Unless they be Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Americans or -possibly - Italians) -- ADVENTURES IN GERMAN JIHAD -- Parting the Red Sea -- An Austrian in Arabia -- Showdown at the Suez Canal -- Gallipoli: From Disaster to Triumph -- The Blood of the Prophet -- The Shia Stratagem -- To the Gates of India -- BOOMERANG -- Trouble on the Baghdad Railway -- The Reluctant Mahdi -- Iranian Implosion -- Betrayal in Mecca -- The Holy War Devours its Children -- Consolation Prize? The Race for Baku. I. 1. 2. 3. II. 4. 5. 6. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. IV. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
9781846143236
World War, 1914-1918--Turkey.
World War, 1914-1918--Islamic countries.
Jihad.
Geopolitics--History.--Germany
Germany--Foreign relations
Germany--Foreign relations--Turkey.
Turkey--Foreign relations--Germany.
900 / MCM/B