The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany´s bid for world power /
McMeekin, Sean, 1974- ,
The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany´s bid for world power / Sean McMeekin. - xv, 460 páginas, [16] páginas de láminas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 25 cm.
´First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010´--T.p. verso.
Incluye bibliografía (p. 413-[426]).
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.
0674057392 9780674057395
Geopolítica.--Historia.--Alemania
Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918.--Países islámicos.
Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918.--Turquía.
Alemania.--Relaciones exteriores--1888-1918.
940.31 / M167b 2010
The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany´s bid for world power / Sean McMeekin. - xv, 460 páginas, [16] páginas de láminas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 25 cm.
´First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010´--T.p. verso.
Incluye bibliografía (p. 413-[426]).
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.
0674057392 9780674057395
Geopolítica.--Historia.--Alemania
Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918.--Países islámicos.
Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918.--Turquía.
Alemania.--Relaciones exteriores--1888-1918.
940.31 / M167b 2010