TY - BOOK AU - McMeekin,Sean TI - The Berlin-Baghdad express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany´s bid for world power SN - 0674057392 U1 - 940.31 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Geopolítica KW - Alemania KW - Historia KW - Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918 KW - Países islámicos KW - Turquía KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - 1888-1918 N1 - ´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 ER -