| Portion of title |
Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power |
| Contents |
Prologue: The view from Haydarpasha -- The kaiser, the baron and the dragoman -- Berlin to Baghdad -- Young Turks and old caliphs -- A gift from Mars : German holy war fever -- The war for the porte -- The first global jihad : death to infidels everywhere! (unless they be Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Americans or - possibly - Italians) -- Parting the Red Sea -- An Austrian in Arabia -- Showdown at the Suez Canal -- Gallipoli : from disaster to triumph -- The blood of the Prophet -- The Shia stratagem -- To the gates of India -- Trouble on the Baghdad Railway -- The reluctant Mahdi -- Iranian implosion -- Betrayal in Mecca -- The holy war devours its children -- Consolation prize? : the race for Baku -- Epilogue: The strange death of German Zionism and the Nazi-Muslim connection. |
| General note | "First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-[426]) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010019199 |
| ISBN | 9780674057395 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0674057392 (cloth : alk. paper) |
