Paul is a bright boy growing up in the days of the Kaiser, before the turn of the century, in southern Germany.
As a child-worker in a spinning mill, he experiences the technical and economic boom.
Yet his greatest ambition is to become a writer.
After his apprenticeship as a compositor he undertakes an adventurous journey to India.
Here of all places, he has fateful encounter which is to change his whole life.
Whilst the plan to build the legendary Baghdad Railway from Berlin to the gates of India begins to take shape, world politics develop into a dangerous maelstrom……
Michael G. Guiard
Historischer Roman Kaiserreich Indien Berlin Bagdadbahn