The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 / Sean McMeekin.

Collection type	Library
Author	McMeekin, Sean, 1974-;
Call Number	956.10154 M167b
Document type	Monograph
Year	2010.
Pagination	xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Allen Lane,
Note	Includes index. Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-[426]) and index. Explores one of the big, previously unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman Empire. McMeekin's book shows how incredibly high the stakes were in the Middle East - with the Germans in the tantalizing position of taking over the core of the British Empire via the extraordinary railway that would link Central Europe and the Persian Gulf.
Place made	London :

Abstract

The Kaiser, the baron and the dragoman -- Berlin to Baghdad -- Young Turks and old caliphs -- 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, Hun garians, Americans or - possibly - Italians) -- Parting the Red Sea -- Au Austrian in Arabia -- Showdown at the Suez Canal -- Gallipoli: from disaster to triumph -- The blood of the prophet -- The Shia stratagem -- To the gate of India -- Trouble on the B aghdad railway -- The reluctant Mahdi -- Iranian implosion -- Betrayal in Mecca -- The holy war devours its children -- Consolation prize? the race for Baku -- Epilogue: The strange death of German Zionism and the Nazi-Muslim connection.