The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 / Sean McMeekin.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010Description: xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9781846143236Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey | World War, 1914-1918 -- Islamic countries | Jihad | Geopolitics -- Germany -- History | Germany -- Foreign relations | Germany -- Foreign relations -- Turkey | Turkey -- Foreign relations -- GermanyDDC classification: 900 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 900 MCM/B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P11910 |
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.
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