Nick Higham <br/><br/>
Mavericks  : empire oil revolution and the forgotten battle of world war one 

 - London  Bloomsbury Publishing  2025 
 - x,342p.  PB  23.5x15.5cm. 
<br/><br/> The forgotten story of a group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission with a daring and fearless approach.<br/>As the First World War drew to a close and regimes began to collapse across Europe, British officials plotted a daring campaign to send an unlikely band of maverick soldiers, diplomats and spies to the chaotic region around the Caspian Sea. Their mission: to block the advance of the Turks, to hold back the rising Bolsheviks and prevent a Turkish-inspired jihad overwhelming India, and to secure the vital supply of oil from Baku.<br/>Drawing on personal diaries, memoirs and once-secret government archives, Mavericks brings to life a cast of eccentric heroes who survived against all odds to tell their extraordinary tales. This is a propulsive story of boldness and intrigue, set in a forgotten corner of the Great War where the rules were made to be broken. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781037203923 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Military History<br/>Imperial Strategy and Geopolitics<br/>Collapse of Empires and Revolution<br/>Oil and Strategic Resources
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.53  / HIGM