The Berlin-Baghdad Express: Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for World Power

Sean McMeekin's study of the German-Ottoman alliance and the First World War bid for world power, which also touches on the Caucasus and the rivalry over Baku oil.

Published by Harvard University Press in 2010, this English-language monograph examines the German-Ottoman wartime partnership around the Berlin-Baghdad railway project, including efforts at pan-Islamic propaganda. It situates the eastern theatres of the war and the 1918 German-Ottoman rivalry over the Caucasus and the Baku oil region within a global framework. For this collection it serves as contextual reading on the international and intra-alliance background to the Army of Islam's campaign.