McMeekin, Sean,  1974- , <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> ´First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010´--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía (p. 413-[426]). 
<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>0674057392 9780674057395 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geopolítica.--Historia.--Alemania<br/>Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918.--Países islámicos.<br/>Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918.--Turquía.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Alemania.--Relaciones exteriores--1888-1918.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.31  / M167b 2010