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The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power
- Title
- The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power / Sean McMeekin.
- Author
- McMeekin, Sean, 1974-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
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- Description
- xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : the view from Haydarpasha -- 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, Hungarians, Americans or - possibly - Italians) -- 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue : The strange death of German Zionism and the Nazi-Muslim connection.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-5436
- ISBN
- 9780674057395 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0674057392 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010019199
- OCLC
- YBP 2010019199
- Author
- McMeekin, Sean, 1974-
- Title
- The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power / Sean McMeekin.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-5436