The Berlin-Baghdad express :
Published by : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (Cambridge, Mass. :) Physical details: xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ISBN:9780674057395 (cloth : alk. paper); 0674057392 (cloth : alk. paper).| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"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.
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