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050	0	0	_aD621. _bA3. _cS74 2014
100	1		_aStewart, Jules.
245	1	4	_aThe Kaiser's mission to Kabul : _ba secret expedition to Afghanistan in World War I / _cJules Stewart.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bI.B. Tauris, _c©2014.
300			_axvii, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
500			_aAbstract: 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.
504			_6Includes bibliographical references.
505			_aContents: 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.
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600	1	0	_aWilhelm II, keizer van Duitsland, _d1859-1941.
600	1	0	_aNiedermayer, Oskar von, _d1885-1948.
600	1	0	_aHabibullah Khan, emir van Afghanistan, _d1872-1919.
650		0	_aDiplomacy _x History _y 20th century.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _z Germany.
650		0	_aHentig, Werner Otto von, 1886-1984.
651		0	_aAfghanistan _x Foreign relations.
651		0	_aGermany _x Foreign relations _y 1888-1918.
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