McMeekin, Sean,  1974- <br/><br/>
The Berlin-Baghdad express :  the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power / 
 Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power 
Sean McMeekin. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  2010. 
 - xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-[426]) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674057395 (cloth : alk. paper) 0674057392 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010019199 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1914-1918--Turkey.<br/>World War, 1914-1918--Islamic countries.<br/>Jihad.<br/>Geopolitics--History.--Germany
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Germany--Foreign relations--1888-1918.<br/>Germany--Foreign relations--Turkey.<br/>Turkey--Foreign relations--Germany.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D520.T8  / M36 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.3/1