Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Date: 2012. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. First printing. Covers soiled. 2012 Trade Paperback. xv, 460 pp. 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 ...

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Date: 2012-05-06. paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Unmarked trade paperback 2012. Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press ISBN 0674064321 9780674064324 [US]

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ISBN10: 0674064321, ISBN13: 9780674064324, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War. Presenting a reinterpretation of the war, this title states that 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.
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