Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally
weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and
unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it
defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of
German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into
English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the
complexities of the fragile Ottoman-German alliance from the
perspective of a participant. Much like fellow soldier-scholar T.E.
Lawrence, Prufer and his colleagues tried to steal the loyalties of
the Muslim subjects of the opposing sides. The book explores these
episodes of sabotage, subversion and subterfuge - from managing
spies to preparing for the attack on the Suez Canal in 1915 - and
in the process sheds light onto the ways World War I played out
across the Middle East. Complemented throughout by in-depth and
meticulously researched footnotes, this primary source collection
is an invaluable addition to the extant corpus of late Ottoman and
World War I historical documents.
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