- Published: 6 July 2011
- ISBN: 9780141047652
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $39.99
The Berlin-Baghdad Express
The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918

















- Published: 6 July 2011
- ISBN: 9780141047652
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $39.99
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