Preface and Contents Abbreviations used in NotesThe Ottoman Empire and European Alliances, 1815-19141.The British Library's Collection of the Papers of Mehmed Emin Âli PaşaSome Notes on British Espionage in the Ottoman Empire, 1878-19082.Abdülhamid II and the Ottoman Defence Problem3.The Ottoman Empire, the Sudan and the Red Sea Coast, 1883-18894.Religion, Irreligion and Nationalism in the Diaries of the Bulgarian Exarch Yosif5. Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz and the Rebirth of the Ottoman Empire6.Some Military Problems faced by the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th Century7.Ottoman War Planning and the Balkan Campaign of October-December 19128.The Perils of Partition: the Agreements of 1913-1914 Revisited