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I. | A German superman at Constantinople | 3 |
II. | The “Boss System” in the Ottoman Empire and how it proved useful to Germany | 20 |
III. | “The personal representative of the Kaiser.” Wangenheim opposes the sale of American warships to Greece | 41 |
IV. | Germany mobilizes the Turkish army | 61 |
V. | Wangenheim smuggles the Goeben and the Breslau through the Dardanelles | 68 |
VI. | Wangenheim tells the American Ambassador how the Kaiser started the war | 82 |
VII. | Germany’s plans for new territories, coaling stations, and indemnities | 90 |
VIII. | A classic instance of German propaganda | 96 |
IX. | Germany closes the Dardanelles and so separates Russia from her Allies | 105 |
X. | Turkey’s abrogation of the capitulations. Enver living in a palace, with plenty of money and an imperial bride | 112 |
XI. | Germany forces Turkey into the war | 123 |
XII. | The Turks attempt to treat alien enemies decently, but the Germans insist on persecuting them | 130 |
XIII. | The invasion of the Notre Dame de Sion School | 147 |
XIV. | Wangenheim and the Bethlehem Steel Company. A “Holy War” that was made in Germany | 157 |
XV. | Djemal, a troublesome Mark Antony. The first German attempt to get a German peace | 171 |
XVI. | The Turks prepare to flee from Constantinople and establish a new capital in Asia Minor. The Allied fleet bombarding the Dardanelles | 184 |
XVII. | Enver as the man who demonstrated “the vulnerability of the British fleet.” Old-fashioned defenses of the Dardanelles | 202 |
XVIII. | The Allied armada sails away, though on the brink of victory | 217 |
XIX. | A fight for three thousand civilians | 232 |
XX. | More adventures of the foreign residents | 253 |
XXI. | Bulgaria on the auction block | 262 |
XXII. | The Turk reverts to the ancestral type | |