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 aim 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. Britain saw this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788314581
• ISBN13: 9781788314589
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"