In 1915, at the height of World War I, the Central Powers sent a
secret mission, led by Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer and Werner Otto
von Hentig, to the court of the emir of Afghanistan, Habibullah
Khan. Jointly operated by the governments of Germany and Turkey,
the aim of the mission was to persuade the emir to declare full
independence from the British Empire, enter the war on the side of
the Central Powers and attack British India. Britain saw this
mission as a serious and credible threat - so much so that they
tried to intercept the travellers in Persia en route to Kabul and
subsequently implemented their own intelligence mission to ensure
that Afghanistan would retain its neutral position. Jules Stewart
provides a gripping account of the expedition, highlighting a
previously little-known aspect of World War I.
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