Germany's Covert War in the Middle East

Espionage, Propaganda and Diplomacy in World War I

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Curt Prufer

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Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the complexities of the fragile Ottoman-German alliance from the perspective of a participant. Much like fellow soldier-scholar T.E. Lawrence, Prufer and his colleagues tried to steal the loyalties of the Muslim subjects of the opposing sides. The book explores these episodes of sabotage, subversion and subterfuge - from managing spies to preparing for the attack on the Suez Canal in 1915 - and in the process sheds light onto the ways World War I played out across the Middle East. Complemented throughout by in-depth and meticulously researched footnotes, this primary source collection is an invaluable addition to the extant corpus of late Ottoman and World War I historical documents.

Author Biography:

Curt Prufer was one of Germany's leading diplomats in the early twentieth century, serving under the Kaiser, the Weimar Republic and the Nazis. During World War I he was stationed in the Middle East, where he attempted to orchestrate - by various means, both official and informal - Ottoman participation in the war on the side of the Germans. Kevin Morrow is a researcher and translator with a wide range of experience amongst historical archives. He previously worked on the research team for Scott Anderson's Lawrence in Arabia.

Release date Australia

December 11th, 2017

Author

Curt Prufer

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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Edited by Kevin Morrow
Translated by Kevin Morrow

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11 bw in 8pp plates

Pages

352

Dimensions

138x216x25

ISBN-13

9781784531430

Product ID

25036356

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