Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941
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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 EastSpring 1941 was a high point for the Axis war machine. Western Europe was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain on its heels; and Rommels Afrika Korps was freshly arrived to drive on the allimportant Suez Canal.In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the story of Iraq and the Levant during this most pivotal time of the war. The browbeaten Allied forces had one last remaining hope for turning the war in their favor: the Axis running through its fuel supply. But when the Golden Squarefour Iraqi generals allegiant to the Axis causestaged a coup in Iraq, elevating a proGerman junta and prompting military cooperation between Vichy Frenchoccupied Syria and Lebanon and the Axis, disaster loomed.Blood, Oil and the Axis follows those who participated in the Allies frantic, improvised, and unlikely response to this dire threat: Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs, Australians, American and British soldiers, Free French Foreign Legionnaires, and Jewish Palestinians, all who shared a desperate, bloody purpose in quashing the formation of an Axis state in the Middle East. Memorable figures of this makeshift alliance include Jack Hasey, a young American who ran off to fight with the Free French Foreign Legion before his own country entered the war; Freya Stark, a famous travelwriterturnedgovernmentagent; and even Roald Dahl, a twentythreeyearold Royal Air Force recruit (and future author of beloved childrens books).Taking the reader on a tour of cities and landscapes grimly familiar to todays readerfrom a bombedout Fallujah, to Baghdad, to DamascusBlood, Oil and the Axis is poised to become the definitive chronicle of the Axiss menacing play for Iraq and the Levant in 1941 and the extraordinary alliance that confronted it. 16 b&w illustrations
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