TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,Jules
TI  - The Kaiser's mission to Kabul : : a secret expedition to Afghanistan in World War I / 
SN  - 9781780768755
AV  - D621. A3.
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London ; , New York : 
PB  - I.B. Tauris, 
KW  - Wilhelm II, keizer van Duitsland, 
KW  - Niedermayer, Oskar von, 
KW  - Habibullah Khan, emir van Afghanistan, 
KW  - Diplomacy
KW  -  History
KW  -  20th century.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  -  Germany.
KW  - Hentig, Werner Otto von, 1886-1984.
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  -  Foreign relations.
KW  - Germany
KW  -  Foreign relations
KW  -  1888-1918.
N1  - Abstract: 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.; Contents: Foreword by General the Lord Richards of Herstmonceux—The Kaiser, the Amir, and the Viceroy—We're off to join the circus—Into the fearful wasteland—The waiting game—To Berlin the hard way—West to Berlin—East to Berlin—My enemies' enemy is Germany.
ER  -