The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power (Hardcover) by Sean McMeekin

from aadyer

A well informed, if somewhat dry, look at Pan Islamism directives by the Kaisers government in the First World War. This does have some elements of trying to illustrate the lives of Germany's "Lawrence Of Arabia" but goes farther than this, looking at the war in the Causacus, The rail Links, the ...

from xuebi

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War One is rather infrequently encountered (unless one is reading Lawrence of Arabia), even more so when it concerns the perspective of the Germans and Ottomans. Discussing the German plan to build a railway from Berlin to Baghdad for strategic purposes and how...

from Steve38

A history of German involvement in the Middle East in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Allegedly built on the story of the building of the rail line from Europe through Turkey into the heart of the Middle East. A story that the author comes back to now and again but without any great vigour....

from Shrike58

In this account of the shaky marriage between Berlin & Constantinople during the Great War, and the German effort to unleash a jihad against the Entente powers, McMeekin is at his best when he talks about the pack of German Orientalists who were the operators at the cutting edge, and how this fit...