Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945

by Anand Toprani

The history of oil is a chapter in the story of Europe's geopolitical decline in the twentieth century. During the era of the two world wars, a lack of oil constrained Britain and Germany from exerting their considerable economic and military power independently. Both nations' efforts to restore the independence they had enjoyed during the Age of Coal backfired by inducing strategic over-extension, which served only to hasten their demise as great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198834608
• ISBN13: 9780198834601
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"