xvii, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
English
9781780768755 9780857734716
,Wilhelm II, keizer van Duitsland, 1859-1941.
,Niedermayer, Oskar von, 1885-1948.
,Habibullah Khan, emir van Afghanistan, 1872-1919.
Diplomacy History 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 Germany. Hentig, Werner Otto von, 1886-1984.
,Afghanistan -- Foreign relations.
,Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1888-1918.
D621. / A3. / S74 2014
Library of Congress Classification / Monograph
3ACKU000369594
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.