John Broich

Blood, Oil and the Axis (eBook, ePUB)

The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An "almost absurdly colorful" history of the WWII battle for the Levant: "In places... the material is like Casablanca meets The English Patient" ( The Wall Street Journal). In the spring of 1941, the Allied forces had one last hope: that the Axis would run through its fuel supply. In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the vital story of Iraq and the Levant during this most pivotal time of the war. Four Iraqi generals staged a pro-German coup in Iraq, they established military cooperation between the Axis and the Middle East. The Allies responded with an improvised and unlikely coalition: Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs, Australians, American and British soldiers, Free French Foreign Legionnaires, and Jewish Palestinians. All shared a common desire to quash the formation of an Axis state in the region. Taking readers from a bombed-out Fallujah, to Baghdad, to Damascus, this definitive chronicle features numerous memorable figures, including Jack Hasey, a young American who fought with the Free French Foreign Legion; Freya Stark, a famous travel-writer-turned-government-agent; and even Roald Dahl, a young Royal Air Force recruit and future author of beloved children's books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABRAMS Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781468314014
• Artikelnr.: 56317603

Autorenporträt

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.