Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist - State in Iraq and the Levant, 194

Informationen zum Autor John Broich holds a PhD in British History from Stanford University, and is a professor of British Empire history at Case Western Reserve University. His writing regularly appears in the Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, and Newsweek. He is the author of Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade. He lives in Ohio and Minnesota. Klappentext Taking the reader on a tour of cities and landscapes grimly familiar to today's reader--from a bombed-out Fallujah, to Baghdad, to Damascus--Blood, Oil and the Axis is poised to become the definitive chronicle of the Axis's menacing play for Iraq and the Levant in 1941 and the extraordinary alliance that confronted it. Zusammenfassung The riveting story of the unlikely coalition of individuals who prevented the Axis from obtaining an abundant supply of oil and absorbing an army of 50,000 into their own, turning the tide of WWII in the Middle East

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• Authors: John Broich, Broich John
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781468313994
• ISBN: 978-1-4683-1399-4
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Militärgeschichte, Nahost, Zweiter Weltkrieg - Periode (1939 bis 1945), HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Moderne Kriegsführung, Naher Osten - Nahost, Weltkrieg / Zweiter Weltkrieg, Weltkrieg 1939/45, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte