Ambassador Morgenthau's story /
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| Author / Creator: | Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946. |
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| Imprint: | Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2003. |
| Description: | xxxix, 333 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4956245 |
Table of Contents:
- Editor's Note / Peter Balakian
- Foreword: "An Old Practice in Its Modern Development" / Robert Jay Lifton
- Introduction / Roger W. Smith
- I. A German Superman at Constantinople
- II. The "Boss System" in the Ottoman Empire and how it proved useful to Germany
- III. "The personal representative of the Kaiser." Wangenheim opposes the sale of American warships to Greece
- IV. Germany mobilizes the Turkish army
- V. Wangenheim smuggles the Goeben and the Breslau through the Dardanelles
- VI. Wangenheim tells the American Ambassador how the Kaiser started the war
- VII. Germany's plans for new territories, coaling stations, and indemnities
- VIII. A classic instance of German propaganda
- IX. Germany closes the Dardanelles and so separates Russia from her Allies
- X. Turkey's abrogation of the capitulations. Enver living in a palace, with plenty of money and an imperial bride
- XI. Germany forces Turkey into the war
- XII. The Turks attempt to treat alien enemies decently, but the Germans insist on persecuting them
- XIII. The invasion of the Notre Dame de Sion School
- XIV. Wangenheim and the Bethlehem Steel Company. A "Holy War" that was made in Germany
- XV. Djemal, a troublesome Mark Antony. The first German attempt to get a German peace
- XVI. The Turks prepare to flee from Constantinople and establish a new capital in Asia Minor. The Allied fleet bombarding the Dardanelles
- XVII. Enver as the man who demonstrated "the vulnerability of the British fleet." Old-fashioned defenses of the Dardanelles
- XVIII. The Allied armada sails away, though on the brink of victory
- XIX. A fight for three thousand civilians
- XX. More adventures of the foreign residents
- XXI. Bulgaria on the auction block
- XXII. The Turk reverts to the ancestral type
- XXIII. The "Revolution" at Van
- XXIV. The murder of a nation
- XXV. Talaat tells why he "deports" the Armenians
- XXVI. Enver Pasha discusses the Armenians
- XXVII. "I shall do nothing for the Armenians," says the German Ambassador
- XXVIII. Enver again moves for peace. Farewell to the Sultan and to Turkey
- XXIX. Von Jagow, Zimmermann, and German-Americans
- Epilogue: The Rest of the Story / Henry Morgenthau III.
