TY - BOOK AU - McMeekin,Sean TI - The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 SN - 9781846143236 U1 - 900 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Turkey KW - Islamic countries KW - Jihad KW - Geopolitics KW - Germany KW - History KW - Foreign relations N1 - First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd; Includes bibliographical references and index; I; THE VISION --; 1; The Kaiser, the Baron and the Dragoman --; 2; Berlin to Baghdad --; 3; Young Turks and Old Caliphs --; II; THE PROPHET ARMED --; 4; A Gift from Mars: German Holy War Fever --; 5; The War for the Porte --; 6; The First Global Jihad: Death to Infidels Everywhere! (Unless they be Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Americans or -possibly - Italians) --; III; ADVENTURES IN GERMAN JIHAD --; 7; Parting the Red Sea --; 8; An Austrian in Arabia --; 9; Showdown at the Suez Canal --; 10; Gallipoli: From Disaster to Triumph --; 11; The Blood of the Prophet --; 12; The Shia Stratagem --; 13; To the Gates of India --; IV; BOOMERANG --; 14; Trouble on the Baghdad Railway --; 15; The Reluctant Mahdi --; 16; Iranian Implosion --; 17; Betrayal in Mecca --; 18; The Holy War Devours its Children --; 19; Consolation Prize? The Race for Baku ER -