Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918
by:
Sean McMeekin (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141047652 (0141047658)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 460
Edition language: English
This book is a (weak) five-star right up to its last couple of chapters. Informative, well-written (if somewhat breezy) and detailed. The interpretation is... debatable, at many points, but a history book that forces you to think about interpreting events can't be faulted for that, right?Reading the...
Well written and with a wealth of obscure (to me anyway), fascinating and often hilarious details and characters. Could have done with more on the actual railroad, but I can always stand to hear more about railroads. I'm somewhat derailed by the epilogue on Zionism however, rather the same feeling a...