The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
by:
Sean McMeekin (author)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780674058538
Publish date: September 15th 2010
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages no: 496
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...