Berlin-Baghdad Express

Name: Berlin-Baghdad Express
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ISBN: 9780674064324

ISBN-10: 0674064321

ISBN-13: 9780674064324

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sean McMeekin

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The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends.The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey’s hereditary enemy,…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

Sean McMeekin is Assistant Professor of History at KoÃ§ University in Istanbul, Turkey.



List of Maps


List of Abbreviations


A Note on Names and Translations


Prologue: The View from Haydarpasha



The Vision



The Kaiser, the Baron and the Dragoman



Berlin to Baghdad



Young Turks and Old Caliphs



The Prophet Armed



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)



Adventure in German Jihad



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



Boomerang



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


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index