The Kaiser's Mission to Kabul: A Secret Expedition to Afghanistan in World War I

by Jules Stewart

Book Overview

In 1915, at the height of World War I, the Central Powers sent a secret mission, led by Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig, to the court of the emir of Afghanistan, Habibullah Khan. Jointly operated by the governments of Germany and Turkey, the purpose of the mission was to persuade the emir to declare full independence from the British Empire, enter the war on the side of the Central Powers and attack British India. The ultimate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780768753
• ISBN13: 9781780768755
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.9"