The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918

The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918
Sean McMeekin (Auteur)
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In this excellent, well-researched and fascinating book, Sean McMeekin has given us a welcome and stimulating perspective on a highly important but neglected part of the First World War. His account of the Turco-German war effort is a tale of high adventure, ambition and political chicanery with a cast of colourful, brave and sometimes ruthless characters. (Lawrence James Literary Review )

An exciting new book by a talented young historian (Niall Ferguson Observer )

McMeekin adds a wealth of documentation...[t]he result is a captivating new history of the Eastern Front in the first world war (Eugene Rogan Financial Times )

McMeekin has written an engaging history peopled with larger-than-life characters in exotic settings (Eugene Rogan Financial Times )

McMeekin has written a powerful, overdue book that for many will open up a whole new side to the first world war. (George Walden Observer )

In addition to bringing to life a fascinating episode in early 20th-century history, The Berlin-Baghdad Express contains several timely lessons and cautionary tales. (Wall Street Journal )

Sean McMeekin's account possesses the large merit that it tells a story little known to Western readers, drawing extensively upon German sources. It depicts a splendid cast of characters heroic in their endeavors if absurd in their lack of accomplishments. (Max Hastings New York Review of Books )