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The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 480 Publisher: Penguin This title is winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the Reality behind Greenmantle . (Norman Stone). The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big. previously unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the itish Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman Empire. McMeekin's book shows how incredibly high the stakes were in the Middle East - with the Germans in the tantalizing position of taking over the core of the itish Empire via the extraordinary railway that would link Central Europe and the Persian Gulf. Germany sought the Ottoman Empire as an ally to create jihad against the itish - whose Empire at the time was the largest Islamic power in the wo...

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