8vo. [3], 160 pp., frontispiece, 14 b/w photographic plates, 1 folding map at rear, half-title, contemporary blue cloth, lightly rubbed round edges, title printed in red & black, notes, copy in very good condition, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia & London, second impression with a new preface, 1918.

Synopsis

The building of this link by Germany, with its railway across the Turkish heartland to Baghdad, was seen as a great threat to English security in India.