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

Author/creator McMeekin, Sean, 1974-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Descriptionxv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Portion of title Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power
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.
General note"First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 413-[426]) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010019199
ISBN9780674057395 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0674057392 (cloth : alk. paper)

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