Berlin-Baghdad express :
McMeekin, Sean, 1974-
Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 / Sean McMeekin. - New York Penguin Books 2010. - xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Rs.499/-
Gratis
"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.
9780141047652
World War, 1914-1918--Turkey.--Islamic countries.
Jihad.
Geopolitics--History.--Germany
Germany--Foreign relations--1888-1918.
Germany--Foreign relations--Turkey.
Turkey--Foreign relations--Germany.
940.31 MCM
Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 / Sean McMeekin. - New York Penguin Books 2010. - xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Rs.499/-
Gratis
"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.
9780141047652
World War, 1914-1918--Turkey.--Islamic countries.
Jihad.
Geopolitics--History.--Germany
Germany--Foreign relations--1888-1918.
Germany--Foreign relations--Turkey.
Turkey--Foreign relations--Germany.
940.31 MCM