The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press,
2010
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| Schlagworte: | World War, 1914-1918 Jihad Geopolitics Deutschland Außenpolitik Osmanisches Reich Bagdadbahn Geschichte 1890-1918 |
| Umfang: | XV, 460 S., [8] Bl. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.