GUARDIAN: The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin

BOOK REVIEW: "The roots of conflict in the Middle East go back to the 'half-mad imperial enterprise' of Germany's last Kaiser Wilhelm II, finds George Walden."

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/18/berlin-baghdad-express-mcmeekin-review