Editor's Introduction

Preface

1. A German superman at Constantinople

2. The "Boss System" in the Ottoman Empire and how  it proved useful to Germany

3. "The personal representative of the Kaiser." Wangenheim  opposes the sale of American warships to Greece

4. Germany mobilizes the Turkish army

5. Wangenheim smuggles the Goeben and the Breslau through the Dardanelles

6. Wangenheim tells the American Ambassador how the  Kaiser started the war

7. Germany's plans for new territories, coaling stations,  and indemnities

8. A classic instance of German propaganda

9. Germany closes the Dardanelles and so separates Russia  from her Allies

10. Turkey's abrogation of the capitulations. Enver living in a palace, with plenty of money and an imperial bride

11. Germany forces Turkey into the war

12. The Turks attempt to treat alien enemies decently, but  the Germans insist on persecuting them

13. The invasion of the Notre Dame de Sion School

14. Wangenheim and the Bethlehem Steel Company. A "Holy War" that was made in Germany

15. Djemal, a troublesome Mark Antony. The first German  attempt to get a German peace

16. The Turks prepare to flee from Constantinople and  establish a new capital in Asia Minor. The Allied  fleet bombarding the Dardanelles

17. Enver as the man who demonstrated "the vulnerability  of the British fleet." Old-fashioned defenses of the  Dardanelles

18. The Allied armada sails away, though on the brink  of victory

19. A fight for three thousand civilians

20. More adventures of the foreign residents

21. Bulgaria on the auction block

22. The Turk reverts to the ancestral type

23. The "Revolution" at Van

24. The murder of a nation

25. Talaat tells why he deports the Armenians

26. Enver Pasha discusses the Armenians

27. "I shall do nothing for the Armenians," says the  German Ambassador

28. Enver again moves for peace. Farewell to the Sultan  and to Turkey

29. Von Jagow, Zimmermann, and German-Americans

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