TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMeekin,Sean
TI  - The Berlin-Baghdad express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power 
SN  - 9780674057395 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - D520.T8 M36 2010
U1  - 940.3/1 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Jihad
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1888-1918
N1  - "First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-[426]) and index; 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
ER  -