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The Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power (Paperback)
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The Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power (Paperback)
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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.
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