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The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power /
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 Tur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.