最终，这些跨目的的行为带来了灾难，将一个极度虚弱、毫无准备的奥斯曼帝国拖入了一场全球战争，并引发了邪恶的内部种族压迫，导致了它的失败和解体。德国间谍和宣传家柯特·普鲁弗（Curt Prufer）的日记和官方报告首次全部翻译成英文，从参与者的角度记录了脆弱的奥斯曼-德国联盟的复杂性。和同为士兵学者的T.E.劳伦斯一样，普鲁弗和他的同事试图窃取对立双方穆斯林臣民的忠诚。
这本书探讨了这些破坏、颠覆和诡计的事件——从管理间谍到为1915年苏伊士运河袭击做准备——并在此过程中揭示了第一次世界大战在整个中东地区的发展方式。通过深入细致的脚注补充，这本原始资料集是对现存奥斯曼帝国晚期和第一次世界大战历史文献语料库的宝贵补充。
Germany’s Covert War in the Middle East: Espionage, Propaganda and Diplomacy in World War I (EPUB)
Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer – translated here into English in their entirety for the first time – chronicle the complexities of the fragile Ottoman-German alliance from the perspective of a participant. Much like fellow soldier-scholar T.E. Lawrence, Prufer and his colleagues tried to steal the loyalties of the Muslim subjects of the opposing sides.
The book explores these episodes of sabotage, subversion and subterfuge – from managing spies to preparing for the attack on the Suez Canal in 1915 – and in the process sheds light onto the ways World War I played out across the Middle East. Complemented throughout by in-depth and meticulously researched footnotes, this primary source collection is an invaluable addition to the extant corpus of late Ottoman and World War I historical documents.
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