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9780674064324

The Berlin-Baghdad Express

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    9780674064324

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    0674064321

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-05-07
  • Publisher: Belknap Pr
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Summary

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 Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey’s hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspective of the key decision-makers on the Turco-German side, many of the most consequential events of World War I-Turkey’s entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution-are illuminated as never before. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces us to re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its lamentable results. It is an epic tragicomedy of unintended consequences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it desperately wants, jihad begets an Islamic insurrection in Mecca, German sabotage plots upend the Tsar delivering Turkey from Russia’s yoke, and German Zionism midwifes the Balfour Declaration. All along, the story is interwoven with the drama surrounding German efforts to complete the Berlin to Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East.

Author Biography

Sean McMeekin is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University in Turkey.

Table of Contents

List of Mapsp. xi
List of Abbreviationsp. xiii
A Note on Names and Translationsp. xv
Prologue: The View from Haydarpashap. 1
The Vision
The Kaiser, the Baron and the Dragomanp. 7
Berlin to Baghdadp. 32
Young Turks and Old Caliphsp. 54
The Prophet Armed
A Gift from Mars: German Holy War Feverp. 85
The War for the Portep. 100
The First Global Jihad: Death to Infidels Everywhere! (Unless they be Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Americans or - possibly - Italians)p. 123
Adventure in German Jihad
Parting the Red Seap. 141
An Austrian in Arabiap. 153
Showdown at the Suez Canalp. 166
Gallipoli: From Disaster to Triumphp. 180
The Blood of the Prophetp. 191
The Shia Stratagemp. 201
To the Gates of Indiap. 209
Boomerang
Trouble on the Baghdad Railwayp. 233
The Reluctant Mahdip. 259
Iranian Implosionp. 275
Betrayal in Meccap. 288
The Holy War Devours its Childrenp. 301
Consolation Prize? The Race for Bakup. 318
Epilogue: The Strange Death of German Zionism and the Nazi-Muslim Connectionp. 340
Notesp. 367
Bibliographyp. 413
Acknowledgementsp. 427
Indexp. 431
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