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Peter Hopkirk reconstructs alliances, propaganda, sabotage, and conspiratorial schemes that targeted British influence, following key episodes from Germany’s involvement to plots around Kabul, Enver Pasha, and the shifting fortunes in the Caucasus. The narrative is grounded in extensive first-hand accounts and scholarly sources.","ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE  \nThe P lot to Bring Down the British Empire  \nPeter Hopkirk  \n[www.johnmurray.co.uk](www.johnmurray.co.uk)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFirst published in Great Britain in 1994 by John Murray (Publishers)  \nAn Hachette UK Company © The Estate of Peter Hopkirk 1994  \nThe moral right of the Author of the Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written  \npermission of the publisher.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library  \nEpub ISBN: 978-1-84854-633-2  \nBook ISBN: 978-0-7195-6451-2  \nJohn Murray (Publishers)  \nCarmelite House  \n50 Victoria Embankment  \nLondon EC4Y 0DZ  \n[www.johnmurray.co.uk](www.johnmurray.co.uk)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nAlso by Peter Hopkirk  \nAcknowledgements  \nMaps  \nPrologue  \nDRANG NACH OSTEN  \n1. A Place in the Sun  \n2. ‘Deutschland über Allah!’  \n3.‘Like Some Hidden Fire’  \n4. Kaiser Wilhelm’s Holy War  \n5. The Great Indian Conspiracy  \n6. Enver Pasha’s Bombshell  \nTHE NEW GREAT GAME  \n7. The German Lawrence  \n8. The Race for Kabul  \n9. Niedermayer ’s Bluff  \n10. Audience with the Emir  \n11. Wassmuss Pounces  \n12. The Christmas Day Plot  \n13. The Storming of Erzerum  \n14. The Million-Pound Bribe  \n15. The Tide Begins to Turn  \nMELTDOWN  \n16. The Great Russian Collapse  \n17. Caucasian Powder Keg  \n18. Bloodbath in Baku  \n19. Captain Noel’s Bizarre Adventure  \n20. Alone among the Bolsheviks  \n21. The Plot  \n22. The Battle for Baku  \n23.‘Streets Running with Blood’  \n24. The Death Train  \n25. Teague-Jones Disappears  \nEpilogue  \nBibliography About the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo the memory of my mother, who some sixty years ago read me John Buchan’s Greenmantle, the true story of which I have told here  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso by Peter Hopkirk  \nForeign Devils on the Silk Road Trespassers on the Roof of the World Setting the East Ablaze The Great Game Quest for Kim  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nMy principal debt, as with my previous narratives of imperial rivalry in Central Asia, is to those individuals, on either side, who left first-hand accounts of these turbulent events. For without them this book could never have been written. They include Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Captain Oskar von Niedermayer, Captain Werner Otto von Hentig, Har Dayal, Raja Mahendra Pratap, Sir Frederick O’Connor, Captain Edward Noel, Major Ranald MacDonell, Captain Reginald Teague-Jones, General Sir Wilfrid Malleson, General Lionel Dunsterville, Sir Percy Sykes, and Morgan Philips Price of the Manchester Guardian. All are now dead. Their accounts of the war east of Constantinople are to be found in my bibliography.  \nLiving individuals to whom I owe a considerable debt include Brian Pearce, a Russian scholar and historian, who generously placed at my disposal the material he has gathered, over many years, on the strange affair of the twenty-six Baku commissars and the alleged role of Captain TeagueJones in their murder. Also Air Commodore A. R. D. MacDonell, CB, DFC, for the portrait of his father, Ranald MacDonell, and for other information on him, and Christian Dewar Durie, for allowing me to read and quote from her grandmother ’s graphic account of Baku during the Muslim massacres of 1918. Again I am most grateful to Tanya Rose, daughter of M. Philips Price the war correspondent, for information about her father, and to Peter Ellis of Toronto for information about his father, Colonel C. H. Ellis, and for photographs taken by him.  \nI also have to thank Dr H. W. von Hentig for material, including photographs belonging to his late father, Werner Otto von Hentig, and formost interesting discussions with him about th","cbCaidvZraYi19SH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidvZraYi19SH","pdf",4174129,5,398,"English","en",105,"# Prologue\n# DRANG NACH OSTEN\n## A Place in the Sun\n## ‘Deutschland über Allah!’\n## ‘Like Some Hidden Fire’\n## Kaiser Wilhelm’s Holy War\n## The Great Indian Conspiracy\n## Enver Pasha’s Bombshell\n# THE NEW GREAT GAME\n## The German Lawrence\n## The Race for Kabul\n## Niedermayer ’s Bluff\n## Audience with the Emir\n## Wassmuss Pounces\n## The Christmas Day Plot\n## The Storming of Erzerum\n## The Million-Pound Bribe\n## The Tide Begins to Turn\n# MELTDOWN\n## The Great Russian Collapse\n## Caucasian Powder Keg\n## Bloodbath in Baku\n## Captain Noel’s Bizarre Adventure\n## Alone among the Bolsheviks\n## The Plot\n## The Battle for Baku\n## ‘Streets Running with Blood’\n## The Death Train\n## Teague-Jones Disappears\n# Epilogue","[{\"question\":\"What region and time period does the book focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The book focuses on operations east of Constantinople, drawing a narrative across the imperial rivalry period in Central Asia associated with the coming conflict.\"},{\"question\":\"Which side’s influence is repeatedly targeted in the plot?\",\"answer\":\"The narrative centers on schemes intended to undermine British power and influence, following efforts to destabilize British standing through covert action.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author support the story?\",\"answer\":\"The author relies on first-hand accounts from participants on multiple sides and organizes additional context through a listed bibliography of specialist historians.\"}]","On Secret Service East of Constantinople - 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