Oil & war : : how the deadly struggle for fuel in World War II meant victory or defeat / / Robert Goralski and Russell W. Freeburg ; with new forward by Admiral James G. Foggo III, USN (Ret).
The world’s economy runs on oil. People steal for it. Nations kill for it. To win a war, the victor must have enough oil to fuel their tanks, ships, and planes. One of the great untold stories of World War II is about the strategic decisions and combat for the control of enough oil so that the Axis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Quantico, VA : : Marine Corps University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (424 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- The eve of war
- Blitzkrieg and oil
- Octane and the Battle of Britain
- Russian oil : the German key
- The Russian campaign
- Japan's search for oil
- Breaking the American supply line
- Mideast oil and the Mediterranean
- Japan's oil gains
- America's fountain of oil
- Germany bleeds for oil : the Caucasus and Stalingrad
- Command of the Pacific sea-lanes
- The defeat of Rommel
- The Allied oil offensive
- The Western Front
- Final destruction of Germany's fuel sources
- Germany's final offensive and collapse : from the Battle of the Bulge to V-E Day
- Japan's sinking fortunes
- Oil in future wars.