This excellent book looks at the efforts of the Central Powers to enlist the help of Afghanistan. It was hoped that by using Afghanistan as a base German and Turkish troops could attack the British in India, causing them to keep an inordinate number of Indian units on the subcontinent rather than committing them to the Western Front and Africa. The story of Wassmann, Neidermeyer and von Hentig is an amazing one... Neidermeyer and Hentig's efforts just to reach Afghanistan were the stuff of real-life advanture: dodging snakes and tarantulas, British agents and Russian patrols just to reach Afghanistan's borders. The story of this little-known episode of WWI and why it failed is certainly an epic tale. Includes a map and several photographs.
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