In acknowledgment that no war can be fought without maps, German military cartography between 1915 and 1918 gradually extended its cartographic involvement in the Ottoman theaters of Sinai, Mesopotamia and Palestine. By the end of the Great War, six topographical map series had been specially produced: <i>Operationskarte</i> in 1:800,000, <i>Karte des türkisch-ägyptischen Grenzgebietes</i> in 1:250,000, <i>Karte von Mesopotamien (und Syrien)</i> in 1:400,000, <i>Karte von Nordbabylonien</i> in 1:200,000, and <i>Karte von Palästina</i> in three scales 1:100,000, 1:50,000, and 1:25,000. The paper makes the first attempt on a carto-bibliographical appraisal of these map series.