It is still shrouded in legends - this world famous railway that was built over a hundred years ago to link Berlin with Baghdad and Damascus with Medina. A daring enterprise and - in its time - a masterpiece of engineering. But the Baghdad railway was to link not only the cities but also the fates of the European great powers with those of the peoples in the Orient. The rival powers vied for supremacy over ...morethe land between the Euphrates and the Tigris. While the locomotives of the Baghdad railway were making their way kilometer for kilometer through the Orient, the First World War drew ever closer. Spies, engineers and saboteurs, diplomats, archaeologists, politicians and financiers of all nations tried to gain as much as possible for their respective homelands from this new artery through the Middle East - or, on the other hand, at least to prevent it from ever being built. A race along perilous paths. ...hide